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Inferno - An Anatomy of American Punishment (Paperback)
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Inferno - An Anatomy of American Punishment (Paperback)
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An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
America’s criminal justice system is broken. The United States
punishes at a higher per capita rate than any other country in the
world. In the last twenty years, incarceration rates have risen 500
percent. Sentences are harsh, prisons are overcrowded, life inside
is dangerous, and rehabilitation programs are ineffective. Looking
not only to court records but to works of philosophy, history, and
literature for illumination, Robert Ferguson, a distinguished law
professor, diagnoses all parts of a now massive, out-of-control
punishment regime. “If I had won the $400 million Powerball
lottery last week I swear I would have ordered a copy for every
member of Congress, every judge in America, every prosecutor, and
every state prison official and lawmaker who controls the life of
even one of the millions of inmates who exist today, many in
inhumane and deplorable conditions, in our nation’s prisons.”
—Andrew Cohen, The Atlantic “Inferno is a passionate,
wide-ranging effort to understand and challenge…our heavy
reliance on imprisonment. It is an important book, especially for
those (like me) who are inclined towards avoidance and tragic
complacency…[Ferguson’s] book is too balanced and thoughtful to
be disregarded.” —Robert F. Nagel, Weekly Standard
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