{"product_id":"mass-incarceration-on-trial-9781620972540","title":"Mass Incarceration on Trial","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn this “impassioned plea for human dignity” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) Jonathan Simon—called “one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation” by Nikolas Rose of the London School of Economics—charts a surprising path to end mass incarceration in America. Using the landmark Supreme Court ruling in \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Plata\u003c\/i\u003e on overcrowding in California prisons as his starting point, Simon suggests that incarcerating people on a “mass” scale simply cannot be accomplished in comportment with the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn an argument that the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e calls “unique,” Simon contends that because we cannot offer meaningful health care, mental health care, or safe and reasonable prison conditions when prisons are run at many times their maximum capacity, “mass incarceration is fundamentally incompatible with humane treatment.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eTodd Clear, former dean of Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, calls \u003ci\u003eMass Incarceration on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e “highly readable, stunning,” \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e says the book “could mark the beginning of a new era in American jurisprudence,” and David Cole in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e calls Simon's work a “sign of the new optimism about criminal justice reform.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Simon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956269879414,"sku":"9781620972540","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_7838769e-8f07-474f-8a4c-b20c6ae58454.jpg?v=1767714900","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/mass-incarceration-on-trial-9781620972540","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}