Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition: Books: Future/History of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.

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Begins with "A Partial Timeline of Prisons and Parole in the United States of America."
Excerpt from Amazon book description: "[A] groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system–through the lens of parole." Page 2 of the Introduction states this book tells "the prison and parole sagas" of Johnnie Veal and Michael Henderson and provides a history of U.S. incarceration.

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Excerpt from Harvard Univ. Press book description: "A pioneering history of incarceration in Western political thought."

Excerpt from Amazon book description: "Identifying the previously unrecognized connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades."

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Vincent Schiraldi was New York City probation commissioner under Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
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Section I. The Consequences of Detention, includes these chapters: 1. The Pains of Pretrial Detention: Theory and Research on the Oft-Overlooked Experiences of Pretrial Jail Stays; 2. Jails and Health;
3. Does Jail Derail? The State of the Literature on Cumulative Disadvantage and Pretrial Detention; 4. Why Individuals Who Are Held Pretrial Have Worse Case Outcomes: How Our Reliance on Cash Bail Degrades Our Criminal Legal System; and 5. Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Penal System Involvement.

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Excerpt from Amazon book description: "Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020."

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Excerpt from Amazon book description: "When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover's year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or "newjack."

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This report includes "64 pages of on-the-scene photographs."