A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with
recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates
Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an
annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are
designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often
occupied by large populations of legally innocent people waiting
for a trial. Jails often have deplorable sanitary conditions, and
there are countless records of inmates being brutalized by staff
and other inmates while in custody. Local municipalities use jails
to institutionalize those whom they perceive to be a threat, so
hundreds of thousands of inmates suffer from mental illness. People
abandoned by families or lacking health insurance, or those who
cannot afford bail, often cycle in and out of jails. In America's
Jails, Derek Jeffreys draws on sociology, philosophy, history, and
his personal experience volunteering in jails and prisons to
provide an understanding of the jail experience from the inmates'
perspective, focusing on the stigma that surrounds incarceration.
Using his research at Cook County Jail, the nation's largest
single-site jail, Jeffreys attests that jail inmates possess an
inherent dignity that should govern how we treat them. Ultimately,
fundamental changes in the U.S. jail system are necessary and
America's Jails provides specific policy recommendations for
changing its poor conditions. Highlighting the experiences of
inmates themselves, America's Jails aims to shift public perception
and understanding of jail inmates to center their inherent dignity
and help eliminate the stigma attached to their incarceration.
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