TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobson,Michael
TI  - Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration 
SN  - 9780814742747
AV  - HV9471 .J317 2005
U1  - 364.60973 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Alternatives to imprisonment
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Parole
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Probation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A
KW  - City
KW  - Commissioner
KW  - Correction
KW  - York
KW  - argues
KW  - former
KW  - massive
KW  - overhaul
KW  - prison
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population.After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons, he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer
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ER  -