| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Introduction -- A Note from the Editors -- 1. Earmark Jobs to Reduce Recidivism -- 2. A Tiny Ray of Light: On the Need for an Authentic Oversight Regime Within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice -- 3. Unlock Digital Inclusion -- 4. On Prison Labor -- 5. Correcting Excessive Sentences of Youthful Offenders -- 6. An Act to Increase Voter Registration and Participation -- 7. On Honor Yards -- 8. Undebatable -- 9. A Call for Pardons -- 10. Over-Incarceration and Gain Time: What's Wrong and How to Fix It -- 11. From Coming Home to Running the Homecoming Project -- 12. "Life" Means Death -- 13. The 13th and the Problem of the Color Line -- 14. From the Ground Up: Tapping the Strengths of Incarcerated People -- 15. A Bridge to Employment -- 16. Closing the Literacy Gap -- 17. The Age of Inequality: Ending the Mass Incarceration of Our Youth -- 18. Prisons as Nursing Homes: A Taxpayer Debacle -- 19. In Defense of Survival: Incentivizing Good Behavior -- 20. Electoral Politics: The New Revolution -- 21. Wards of the State -- 22. Mass Incarceration and Small Business -- 23. A New North Star -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
| Summary |
"When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience. Ideas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults. With contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations."-- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on March 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Prison administration -- United States
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Alternatives to imprisonment
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation
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Prison administration
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Nixon, Vivian, editor.
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Atkinson, Daryl, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781620975305 |
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1620975300 |
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