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The Forgotten Men : Serving a Life without Parole Sentence / Margaret E. Leigey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Issues in Crime and SocietyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) : 3 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780813569482
  • 9780813569499
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.60973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9304 .L395 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Death by Incarceration -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated -- 2. The Forgotten -- 3. The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment -- 4. Coping with Permanent Incarceration -- 5. Growing Old in Prison -- 6. Forgotten No More -- Appendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of Respondents -- Appendix B: Researching the Forgotten -- Notes -- References -- Cases -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account of a group of aging inmates imprisoned for at least twenty years, with virtually no chance of release. These men make up one of the most marginalized segments of the contemporary U.S. prison population. Considered too dangerous for rehabilitation, ignored by prison administrators, and overlooked by courts disinclined to review such sentences, these prisoners grow increasingly cut off from family and the outside world. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-five such prisoners, Leigey gives voice to these extremely marginalized inmates and offers a look at how they struggle to cope. She reveals, for instance, that the men believe that permanent incarceration is as inhumane as capital punishment, calling life without parole "the hard death penalty." Indeed, after serving two decades in prison, some wished that they had received the death penalty instead. Leigey also recounts the ways in which the prisoners attempt to construct meaningful lives inside the bleak environment where they will almost certainly live out their lives. Every state in the union (except Alaska) has the life-without-parole sentencing option, despite its controversial nature and its staggering cost to the taxpayer. The Forgotten Men provides a much-needed analysis of the policies behind life-without-parole sentencing, arguing that such sentences are overused and lead to serious financial and ethical dilemmas.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Death by Incarceration -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated -- 2. The Forgotten -- 3. The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment -- 4. Coping with Permanent Incarceration -- 5. Growing Old in Prison -- 6. Forgotten No More -- Appendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of Respondents -- Appendix B: Researching the Forgotten -- Notes -- References -- Cases -- Index -- About the Author

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Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account of a group of aging inmates imprisoned for at least twenty years, with virtually no chance of release. These men make up one of the most marginalized segments of the contemporary U.S. prison population. Considered too dangerous for rehabilitation, ignored by prison administrators, and overlooked by courts disinclined to review such sentences, these prisoners grow increasingly cut off from family and the outside world. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-five such prisoners, Leigey gives voice to these extremely marginalized inmates and offers a look at how they struggle to cope. She reveals, for instance, that the men believe that permanent incarceration is as inhumane as capital punishment, calling life without parole "the hard death penalty." Indeed, after serving two decades in prison, some wished that they had received the death penalty instead. Leigey also recounts the ways in which the prisoners attempt to construct meaningful lives inside the bleak environment where they will almost certainly live out their lives. Every state in the union (except Alaska) has the life-without-parole sentencing option, despite its controversial nature and its staggering cost to the taxpayer. The Forgotten Men provides a much-needed analysis of the policies behind life-without-parole sentencing, arguing that such sentences are overused and lead to serious financial and ethical dilemmas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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