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Title America's prisons / Noah Berlatsky, book editor.

Publication Info. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2010]
©2010

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  365.973 AMERICA'S    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  365.973 AM    Check Shelf
Description 224 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series Opposing viewpoints series
Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prison deters crime / Bruce Bayley -- Prison does not deter crime / Joel Waldfogel -- Prisons can rehabilitate / Shreveport Times -- Prison rehabilitation efforts are ineffective / Dana Pico -- Alternative sentencing would be more effective than prison / Ruth David -- Alternatives to prison are dangerous and ineffective / Thomas Sowell -- America's imprisonment practices are racist / Glenn Loury -- America's imprisonment practices are not racist / Heather Mac Donald -- Mandatory minimum sentencing is just in drug cases / Jodi L. Avergun -- Mandatory minimum sentencing is unjust / Robert Hooker and Robert Hirsh -- Imprisoning drug users is just / Theodore Dalrymple -- Imprisoning nonviolent drug users is unjust / Michael Huemer -- Disenfranchising prisoners is just / Ben Johnson -- Disenfranchising prisoners is unjust / Conor Clarke and Greg Yothers -- American prisons are humane / Harley G. Lappin -- Overcrowding in American prisons is inhumane / Craig Haney -- Stun technology makes prisons safer / Jeff Wiehe -- Stun technology is inhumane and dangerous / Anne-Marie Cusac -- California must spend more on prison health care / J. Clark Kelso -- California should not spend excessively on prison health care / Debra Saunders -- Allowing inmate moms to raise their children in prison is beneficial / Suzanne Smalley -- Raising children in prison may be harmful / Carol Lloyd -- Juveniles should not be placed in adult prisons / Campaign for Youth Justice -- Life without parole in the adult system is reasonable for some juvenile offenders / Charles D. Stimson and Andrew M. Grossman -- The mentally ill should not be placed in the prison system / Jamie Fellner -- Focusing on mental illness in prison prevents real reform / Susan Mortimer.
Subject Prisons -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Imprisonment -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author Berlatsky, Noah.
ISBN 9780737749564 hardcover
9780737749571 paperback
0737749563 hardcover
0737749571 paperback
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