mass incarceration

June 12, 2019|mandatory sentencing statutes, mass incarceration, Prisoners of Politics, Rachel Barkow

Hemming in the Prosecutors Won’t Reform Our Criminal Justice System

Progressives have decided that district attorneys are responsible for mass incarceration, which is wrong on a number of counts.

March 26, 2018|Crime wave, John DiIulio, Lyndon Baines Johnson, mass incarceration, Office of Economic Opportunity, Patrick Sharkey, Uneasy Peace, War on Poverty

Is It Time to Give Up Aggressive Crime-Fighting?

by Barry Latzer|

Sharkey acknowledges that the decline in crime happened because of mass incarceration and a ramped up criminal justice system.

April 6, 2017|John F. Pfaff, Locked In, mass incarceration, Prison Reform, War on Drugs

Facts and Myths of Mass Incarceration

by Barry Latzer|

John F. Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform is probably the best book on so-called mass incarceration to date. Its great strength is that it is empirically grounded. Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham, doesn’t cherry-pick data to support some a priori theory, he grapples with the hard realities that the data present. As he well understands, this makes his argument for reducing imprisonment a very tough sell.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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