Presidents and Mass Incarceration

Taking an innovative approach, 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 ...