The path away from America's prison crisis may lead through the
jail. While there may be many positive aspects of jails as sites of
confinement, especially when compared with the prisons of mass
incarceration, Irwin's analysis pointed to features that could make
the new jail-based version of mass incarceration even worse. The
local nature and relative obscurity of jails means that the level
of legal review and due process obtainable in prisons through the
persistent efforts of civil rights lawyers may be even harder to
maintain in jails. The historic focus of jails on what Irwin called
"rabble management" threatens to undermine the opportunity
presented by the present prison crisis to rethink America's
overreliance on confinement of all kinds (whether prisons, jails,
or immigration detention centers). If so, it is vital that those of
us committed to reversing the destructive effects of mass
incarceration on American democracy and social equality expand our
concern and our research from prisons to the jails that may replace
them. The re-publication of John Irwin's The Jail: Managing the
Underclass in American Society is a most timely aid to that
mission. --From the foreword by Jonathan Simon
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