The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional Reform

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers...
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Author: Helen Clarke Molanphy
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Language: English
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The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional Reform by Molanphy, Helen Clarke

The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional Reform

Dhs. 462.19

The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional Reform

Dhs. 462.19
Author: Helen Clarke Molanphy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future. Author Helen Clarke Molanphy employs an interdisciplinary approach encompassing sociology, penology, memoir, philosophy, and history.

Featuring the work of researchers as well as penal theorists of the Enlightenment era, literati who have written about crime and punishment, inmates, social justice activists, and journalists, the author incorporates first-hand interviews with participants in the landmark Ruiz v. Estelle lawsuit, which found incarceration in the Texas Department of Corrections to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Synthesizing lessons learned from years of studying the American prison system through contact with inmates, correctional authorities, legislators, and prisoner advocates, Molanphy offers a narrative of crime and punishment, degradation, and dehumanization, but with hope pointing to future correctional reforms. The book not only catalogs human rights abuses and the pain inflicted by corrupt penal systems, but also provides a roadmap for an enlightened society to conceive of ways to reduce mass incarceration and provide humane treatment of inmates.

This reflective survey of the pervasive issues that afflict the prison industrial complex offers a compelling analysis of the past and possible future of the US penal system for students of criminal justice, corrections, penology, and the sociology of punishment.



Author: Helen Clarke Molanphy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/06/2022
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781032248219

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