Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change [Paperback]

You won't find a better collection of diverse perspectives regarding how to respond to the crisis of mass incarcerationranging from reform to abolitionthan what's offered here. Michelle Alexander, author ofThe New Jim Crow

This extraordinary collection by our nations most brilliant thinkers on punishment, policing and prisons is exactly the blueprint for making a just society that we have all been waiting for and desperately need. Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofBlood in the Water

Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Changeshould be required reading in every U.S. high school and college. Newcity Lit

A vital reader on ending mass incarceration featuring advocates, experts, and formerly incarcerated people.

In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define Americas criminal system. But despite growing movements for change, the vast machinery of the carceral state remains very much intact. How can its damage and depredations be undone?

In this pathbreaking reader, three of the nations leading advocatesPremal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria Hawiloprovide us with tools to move from despair and critique to hope and action.Dismantling Mass Incarcerationsurveys various approaches to confronting the carceral state, exploring bold but practical interventions involving police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, prisons, and even life after prison. Rather than prescribing solutions, the book offers a forum for discussionsand disagreementsabout how to best confront the harms of mass incarceration. The contributors range from noted figures such as Angela Y. Davis, Clint Smith, and Larry Krasner to local organizers, advocates, scholars, lawyers, and judges, as well as people who have been incarcerated. The result is an invaluable guide for anyone wholƒ.