The Future of Imprisonment

by Michael Tonry

Book Overview

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute
for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195161637
• ISBN13: 9780195161632
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.8"