5. The Federal Funding That Fuels Mass Incarceration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART ONE A HISTORY OF CRIME AND PUNITIVE RESPONSE
5. 1. Addressing Violent Crime More Effectively 9
6. 2. Losing Our Punitive Civic Religion 20
7. 3. Mass Incarceration and Victim Disregard: Two Sides of the Same Coin 27
8. 4. Crime, the Idea 37
9. PART TWO FEDERAL FUNDING DRIVES PUNITIVE JUSTICE
10. 5. The Federal Funding That Fuels Mass Incarceration 41
11. 6. The Role of Federal Funding in Improving American Justice 51
12. PART III. PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING
13. 7. The Prosecutor Problem 61
14. 8. The Trial Penalty: Coercive Plea Bargaining 71
15. 9. End Mandatory Minimums 77
16. 10. The American “Punisher’s Brain” 93
17. 11. Punishment Over Prevention: U.S. Drug Policy 102
18. 12. Improving Sentencing Policies to Improve Trust and Legitimacy 112
19. PART IV. RACISM AND PUNITIVE EXCESS
20. 13. How Punitive Excess Is a Manifestation of Racism in America 119
21. 14. We Must End the Carcerality in Our Own Hearts 128
22. 15. Race, Mass Incarceration, and the Disastrous War on Drugs 139
23. PART V. UNCOVERING LIFE BEHIND PRISON WALLS
24. 16. How Atrocious Prison Conditions Make Us All Less Safe 151
25. 17. What Did You Call Me? 161
26. 18. The Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement 166
27. 19. A Culture of Abuse in Our Nation’s Prisons and Jails 172
28. 20. Surviving a Daily Storm 178
29. 21. COVID- 19 and the Struggle for Health Behind Bars 184
30. 22. Independent Oversight Is Essential for a Safe and Healthy Prison System 190
31. PART SIX PRISON REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES
32. 23. How Some European Prisons Are Based on Dignity Rather Than Dehumanization 199
33. 24. Embracing Dignity: Pennsylvania’s Experiment with Scandinavian Correctional Principles 211
34. PART SEVEN PUNISHMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE
35. 25. Treating All Kids as Kids 219
36. 26. Treat Kids Like Kids: The United States Is One of the Only Countries That Gives Life Sentences to Juveniles 226
37. PART VIII. ECONOMIC INJUSTICE AND COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES
38. 27. Monetary Sanctions as a Pound of Flesh 233
39. 28. Collateral Consequences and the Enduring Nature of Punishment 243
40. 29. Probation and Parole as Punishment 253
41. 30. A Holistic Approach to Legal Advocacy 261
42. 31. The Dehumanizing Work of Immigration Law 266
43. 32. Exploring Immigration Collateral Consequences Related to a Criminal Conviction 277
44. PART NINE BEYOND BARS ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
45. 33. Providing Hope and Freedom to Overpunished People: Where Both Seem Impossible to Achieve 283
46. 34. Countering Excessive Punishment with Chances for Redemption 293
47. 35. Educating for Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration 301
48. 36. Redeeming Punishment in America 309
49. 37. Criminal Justice Has Been and Must Remain Bipartisan to See Success 319
50. 38. No One Answer to Overpolicing and Mass Incarceration But Many 329
51. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 347
52. CONTRIBUTORS 351
53. INDEX 361