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Burning Down the House

The End of Juvenile Prison

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The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

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The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they
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In Our Future We Are Free

The Dismantling of the Youth Prison

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A master class in social change—how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destructive institution to its knees“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC News, about Bernstein’s Burning Down the HouseOver the past twenty years, one state after another has ... Read more

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A master class in social change—how a coalition of parents, activists, and prison officials brought a racist and destructive institution to its knees“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC News, about Bernstein’s Burning Down the HouseOver the past twenty years, one state after another has
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All Alone in the World

by Nell Bernstein ...

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own." —Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random FamilyIn this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families", award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children—over two million of them—torn apart by our current incarceration policy ... Read more

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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own." —Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random FamilyIn this "moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families", award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children—over two million of them—torn apart by our current incarceration policy
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Burning Down the House

The End of Juvenile Prison

by Nell Bernstein ...

The nationally acclaimed "engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking" (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist"Nell Bernstein's book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson's book was for the environmental movement." —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

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The nationally acclaimed "engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking" (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist"Nell Bernstein's book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson's book was for the environmental movement." —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they
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Burning Down the House

The End of Juvenile Prison

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One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies children the thing that is most essential to their growth and ... Read more

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One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies children the thing that is most essential to their growth and
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All Alone in the World

Children of the Incarcerated

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8 hours 43 min

One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision—incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children—and one in eight African American children—goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.Following in the tradition of ... Read more

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One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision—incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children—and one in eight African American children—goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.Following in the tradition of
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Torn Apart

How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

by Dorothy Roberts ...

**An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

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**An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research,
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Insane

America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

by Alisa Roth ...

An urgent exposÃ©f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders.In this ... Read more

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An urgent exposÃ©f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisonsAmerica has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders.In this
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Women Behind Bars

The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System

by Silja JA Talvi ...

More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in ... Read more

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More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in
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A Plague of Prisons

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

by Ernest Drucker ...

The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post).An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that ... Read more

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The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post).An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that
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The Rage of Innocence

How America Criminalizes Black Youth

by Kristin Henning ...

**A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse"Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has ... Read more

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**A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse"Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has
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Lifers

Seeking Redemption in Prison

by John Irwin ...

Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Read more

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John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional
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