Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
John F. Pfaff
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
John F. Pfaff
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...[an] extremely important book.
...the book demands much more than tinkering at the edges with the current model of incarceration. It advocates for a cultural shift among prosecutors and the public, to view prisoners not only as criminals, but also as people who have impulsively and regrettably committed crimes. As people who should be helped rather than merely warehoused and incapacitated. It reads more as a clarion call toward what might one day be than a set of policy formulations that could be easily enacted.
Pfaff, let there be no doubt, is a reformer.
If there is a take-home message from Pfaff’s book, it is that the problem of mass incarceration is massive and complicated, that it is a state rather than federal problem, that solutions must come from state and county governments, and that they involve changing public attitudes about balancing the costs of crime and the costs of punishment. A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms..