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Our barbaric prisons and the criminal justice system that populates them so lavishly, in addition to being a national disgrace, are imposing penalties on all of us. They are a self-perpetuating generator of criminals, and a growing burden on tax payers. It won't be easy to fix, but it doesn't have to be that way.
References- Bipartisan Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons"U.S. Prisons Overcrowded and Violent, Recidivism High", Infoplease, June 2006
- Stephen H. Unger, "The Drug War: Stuck in the Tunnel" Ends and Means, December 2, 2008
- Caitlin Sullivan, " Punishing OxyContin's Maker", Time, Jul. 20, 2007
- Caleb Groos, "Sentenced to Write a Book: Fibbing Former Pharmaceutical Executive Must Pen His Tale", FindLaw Blotter, June 10, 2009
- Deborah Davies"Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons", BBC Documentary, March 28, 2005
- "Mr. Churchill's Prison Reform", NY Times, August 7, 1910
- Paul Leighton, "Punishing Repeat Offenders", Paul's Justice Page
- M. Keith Chen and Jesse M. Shapiro, "Does Prison Harden Inmates? A Discontinuity-based Approach", Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1450, January 2004
- "Ankle Monitor", Wikipedia
- Jerome G. Miller, "The Debate on Rehabilitating Criminals: Is It True that Nothing Works?", Washington Post, March 1989
- Stephen H. Unger, "Jobs", Ends and Means, August 4, 2007
- Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin, "Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?", Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, April, 2006
- Ben Arnoldy, "Battling California fires, inmates find a chance at better role, " The Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 2008
- David Leonhardt, "As Prison Labor Grows, So Does the Debate", New York Times, March 19, 2000
- Michael Frantz, "What's New with the Second Chance Act?", PR Log, Mar 10, 2009
