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Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America:
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The scale of imprisonment
TL;DR: Watkins and Watkins as discussed by the authors present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons and reveal that explicit policy changes have had little influence on the increases in imprisonment in recent years and analyze whether it is possible to place limits effectively on prison population.
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Mass Incarceration and the Paradox of Prison Conditions Litigation
TL;DR: This paper examined how prison conditions litigation in the 1970s, as an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, inadvertently contributed to the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and found that successful court challenges for institutional change can have long-term outcomes that are contrary to social justice goals.
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Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment
TL;DR: Sunbelt Justice as discussed by the authors examines the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation, and why Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began.
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Parole, snitch, or die: California’s supermax prisons and prisoners, 1997–2007:
TL;DR: This research provides one of the first evaluations of how supermaxes function, in terms of whom they detain and for how long, and how these patterns relate to the originally articulated purposes of the institutions.
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If You Build It, They Will Fill It: The Consequences of Prison Overcrowding Litigation
Joshua Guetzkow,Eric W. Schoon +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the consequences of prison overcrowding litigation for U.S. prisons and found that it had no impact on admissions or release rates and did not lead to any reduction in prison crowding.