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Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison
David C. Anderson The New Press, 182 pgs., $25.00
The programs David C. Anderson lauds in Sensible Justice are everything that alternatives to prison should not be. They stress the punitive over what could reintegrate an offender into society; the individual's culpability over any consideration of the lives the offenders ...
The programs David C. Anderson lauds in Sensible Justice are everything that alternatives to prison should not be. They stress the punitive over what could reintegrate an offender into society; the individual's culpability over any consideration of the lives the offenders ...
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More from this issue:
- Cheaper Than Lab Rats: Can Prisoners Glow in the Dark?, by Hans Sherrer
- Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest
- No Private Rights Under International Treaties
- Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, by Daniel Burton-Rose
- Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison, by Daniel Burton-Rose
- From the Editor, by Dan Pens
- PLN Sues Utah Jail Over Publication Ban; Suit Settled
- Wisconsin Resists Out-of-State Transfers
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Appointment of Counsel), by John Midgley
- No Administrative Exhaustion Required for Monetary Claims; No Qualified Immunity for the Malicious Use of Force
- Administrative Exhaustion Doesn't Include Judicial Remedies
- PLRA "Three Strikes" Provision Upheld and Discussed
- Pennsylvania Consent Decrees Terminated Under PLRA
- Colorado Prisoner Beaten, Not Stabbed
- Florida Nicotine Addiction Suit Settled
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Draws the Line on Jailhouse Snitches
- Arkansas Sheriff Bent on "Saving" Prisoners
- "Tough" Florida Sheriff Arrested
- Eighth Amendment Applies to Escaped Convicts
- AHCC Bulk Mail Ban in Miniken Settled
- Full Court Overrules Clarke v. Stalder in Part
- Lengthy Ad Seg Is Atypical and Significant Hardship
- Kansas Good Time Rules Violate Ex Post Facto
- Retroactive Kansas Good Time Recalculation Unlawful
- South Carolina Grooming Rules Upheld
- Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld
- Warden May Be Liable for Rape
- Jail Brutality Verdict Reversed Due to Improper Argument and Jury Instruction
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- News in Brief
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- The Sounding Tree: Voices Along the Razor Wire, by Lee Dickenson (Book Review), May 15, 1999
- Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison, March 15, 1999
- Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, March 15, 1999
- Our Sisters' Keepers, Feb. 15, 1999
- Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (Book Review), Dec. 15, 1998
- The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (Book Review), Aug. 15, 1998
- The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice, Aug. 15, 1998
- The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime, Aug. 15, 1998
- Human Rights Watch Condemns Indiana Control Units, June 15, 1998
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