Mark Bennett and Mark William Osler (St. Thomas): A “Holocaust in Slow Motion”? America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion. Margo Schlanger (Michigan): How Prisoners’ Rights Lawyers are Preserving the Role of the Courts. Anita Mukherjee (Penn): Does Prison Privatization Distort Justice? Evidence on Time Served and Recidivism. Carmen Cusack (Nova Southeastern): No Stroking in the Pokey: Promulgating Penological Policies Prohibiting Masturbation Among Inmate Populations. John F. Pfaff (Fordham): The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited Importance, Limited Legislative Options. Sabrina Alli reviews Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment by Robert Ferguson. Hamilton Nolan on how we imprison the poor for crimes that haven't happened yet. Andrea Jones on the injustice of mandatory minimums. In the US, punishment comes before the crimes. Why are there up to 120,000 innocent people in US prisons? Sara Mayeux on the case for abolishing juvenile prisons. Patricia O'Brien on why we should stop putting women in jail — for anything. What do we do with all these empty prisons? The US imprisonment rate has fallen for the fifth straight year — here’s why. Don't look now, but the US prison population is growing again. The US has the largest prison population in the world — and it’s growing. Thomas Wells on why prison is unfit for civilised society. Scott McLemee reviews Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America by Jonathan Simon. Graeme Wood on how gangs took over prisons: Originally formed for self-protection, prison gangs have become the unlikely custodians of order behind bars — and of crime on the streets. On America’s front lines: Christopher Jencks reviews On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman and The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, a report by the National Research Council (and more).
