Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition
A guide created to assist those who wish to identify resources on mass incarceration and prison abolition. This guide highlights selected New York-specific events and sources.
Includes: U.S. Congressional hearings and committee prints; legislative histories of "landmark legislation"; CRS and GAO reports; briefs from leading U.S. Supreme Court cases; and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights.
Includes: U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics; U.S. Congressional hearings on drug control policies; historical accounts of life in prisons; government documents; and pamphlets, memoirs and books written by incarcerated people and law enforcement officers.
Provides the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography (representing 50+ years of research). Also includes hundreds of additional related publications (e.g., hearings, trials,and periodicals).