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After Prisons? - Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (Paperback)
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After Prisons? - Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (Paperback)
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As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely
considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and
social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still
without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history.
But in the last few years, the population has decreased, in some
states by almost a third. A broad consensus is emerging to reduce
prison rolls. Politicians have called for repealing the harshest
sentencing laws of the war on drugs, abolishing mandatory minimums
and closing correctional facilities. Does the decrease in the
prison population herald the dismantling of mass incarceration?
This book provides an answer. Drawing on original research from
across New York State, the contributors argue that while massive
decarceration is taking place, the outcome to date is not the one
wished for by reformers, namely a more just system. While drug law
reform is clearly upon us, for example, a moral panic about heroin
addiction and phantom meth labs has recently reached a fever pitch.
As the penitentiary population drops and prisons close, the number
of people in jail has swelled. New intelligence-led policing, and
the rise of a reentry industry together have led to more
surveillance and less social justice. Together these developments
lead to justice disinvestment as the state sheds direct
responsibility for the criminal justice system to the private and
non-profit sector, while it extends its reach through new forms of
community-based supervision, surveillance and policing into poor
neighborhoods and communities of color. Celebration may be
premature, in other words. Having endowed a group that is already
disproportionately poor and people of color with the stigma of
criminality, the state has left the formerly incarcerated and their
communities to their fate. The future we face appears to be neither
emancipatory reform nor simply the continuation of past mass
incarceration. The challenge of freedom, on a scale not seen since
the Reconstruction, remains before us.
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