(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The indispensable primer on race, class and criminal justice now updated into a vivid graphic narrative.

(Hardback)

The assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group, analyzes the unprecedented explosion in the prison population during the past 25 years, and examines how the "get tough" movement has taken its most serious toll on African Americans.

(Paperback, Revised Edition)

Including material on developments under the Bush administration, and statistics, graphs, and charts, this book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the over-reliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. It documents the financial and human toll of the "get tough" movement.

(Hardback)

An insightful interrogation of the U.S. incarceration system that makes a case of the total elimination of life sentences.