Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration Audiobook (Free)

The United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison much more likely. As awful as that truth is definitely for folks and their families, its public outcomes?recycling offenders via an overcome criminal-justice system, ever-mounting costs, unequal treatment before the law, and a growing class of permanently criminalized citizens?are a lot more devastating. Using the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the about Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow points out how dangerous it really is to foundation criminal-justice policy within the whims of the electorate, which places judges, sheriffs, and politicians in office. Instead, she argues for an institutional change toward data and experience, following a model used to create food- and workplace-safety guidelines. Barkow’s prescriptions are rooted in a thorough and refreshingly ideology-free cost-benefit analysis of how to cut mass incarceration while keeping public basic safety. She points to specific guidelines that are deeply problematic on moral grounds and have didn’t end the cycle of recidivism. Her concrete proposals pull on the very best empirical details available to prevent crime and improve the reentry of former prisoners into culture.