Presidents and Mass Incarceration
Mancillas, Linda K.
Taking an innovative approach to the subject, this book looks at how U.S. presidents and their administrations' policies from the late 1960s to 2017 have led to rampant over-imprisonment and a public policy catastrophe in the United States.
Mandatory minimum sentencing, "three-strikes-and-you're-out" legislation, harsher sentences and less parole and probation. The result of draconian criminal justice policies in the last six decades is that ...