Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison SystemThis strong indictment of the current prison system, undertaken by two respected experts on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, traces the history and features of our penal system, offers strong ethical and moral assessments of it, and lays out a whole new paradigm of criminal justice based on restorative justice and reconciliation. The book puts forward a 12-point plan for immediate changes. Beyond Prisons opens a long-needed national dialogue on our responsibilities as citizens and as a nation to provide remediation rather than mere retributive incarceration, answerable to the common good and the justice of God. |
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... American Friends Service Committee in 1917. The AFSC carries out service , development , and peace programs throughout the world , including a focus in criminal justice and new visions of justice . More infor- mation can be found online at ...
... American Friends Service Committee in 1917. The AFSC carries out service , development , and peace programs throughout the world , including a focus in criminal justice and new visions of justice . More infor- mation can be found online at ...
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... Prison Guards , 95 / The Super - max and Other Forms of Torture , 97 / Manufacturing Madness , 100 / Prison Gang Policies : A Threat to Our Security , 102 / Political Prisoners , 106 / Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System , 108 ...
... Prison Guards , 95 / The Super - max and Other Forms of Torture , 97 / Manufacturing Madness , 100 / Prison Gang Policies : A Threat to Our Security , 102 / Political Prisoners , 106 / Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System , 108 ...
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... ( AFSC ) staffer in the Cambridge office . We wanted to list Jamie as a co - author , which she clearly has been , but she declined the offer in the end . Jamie's deep ... national Criminal Justice Task Force , in whose vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... ( AFSC ) staffer in the Cambridge office . We wanted to list Jamie as a co - author , which she clearly has been , but she declined the offer in the end . Jamie's deep ... national Criminal Justice Task Force , in whose vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
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... Criminal Justice Task Force , in whose name the document is written . We would like to express particular gratitude ... AFSC Board , Paul Lacey , and AFSC general secretary Mary Ellen McNish . A number of prisoner readers , including ...
... Criminal Justice Task Force , in whose name the document is written . We would like to express particular gratitude ... AFSC Board , Paul Lacey , and AFSC general secretary Mary Ellen McNish . A number of prisoner readers , including ...
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... Criminal Justice Task Force of the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ) , a Quaker- based organization rooted in the Religious Society of Friends , brings its decades of experience inside and outside of prisons to bear on the ...
... Criminal Justice Task Force of the American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ) , a Quaker- based organization rooted in the Religious Society of Friends , brings its decades of experience inside and outside of prisons to bear on the ...
Contents
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Outline of the Book | 17 |
HISTORY OF A FAILED SYSTEM | 18 |
The Penitentiary SystemReligious Roots | 22 |
The Penitentiary SystemPhilosophical Roots | 24 |
The Development of the Penitentiary System | 26 |
Political Prisoners | 106 |
Immigrants in the Criminal Justice System | 108 |
Sexism | 113 |
Women | 115 |
Sexual Relations and Prison Rape | 117 |
Transgender Prisoners | 119 |
Prison and Disability | 120 |
The Mentally Ill | 122 |
THE DYNAMICS OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA | 30 |
The Intersection of Race and Class | 33 |
Class | 37 |
IN OUR BACKYARDS THE PENAL SYSTEM AT THE LOCAL LEVEL | 43 |
Policing | 44 |
The US Adversarial Legal System | 48 |
The Pretrial Process | 53 |
County Jails | 54 |
Probation and Community Corrections | 57 |
Taking Local Communities Seriously | 59 |
SENTENCING THE COLD HEART OF THE PENAL SYSTEM | 62 |
The California Example | 63 |
Federal Sentencing Policy | 65 |
Carrying Out the Drug War | 66 |
Three Strikes | 67 |
The Death Penalty | 69 |
Life without Mercy | 76 |
The Terminating Program in the Rehabilitative Model | 77 |
Extra Punishment for Sex Offenders | 81 |
The Permanent Punishment | 84 |
CAGES STATE AND FEDERAL PRISONS TODAY | 88 |
Private Prisons and Accountability | 94 |
Prison Guards | 95 |
The Supermax and Other Forms of Torture | 97 |
Manufacturing Madness | 100 |
A Threat to Our Security | 102 |
Health Care | 127 |
Impact of Prisons on Families | 128 |
Prison Ministry | 132 |
YOUTH POVERTY AND DELINQUENCY | 137 |
History of the Juvenile Justice System | 139 |
The Language of Demonization | 140 |
Criminalization of Youth | 142 |
Creating Gangs | 143 |
Zero Tolerance | 144 |
AN ALTERNATIVE VISION OF JUSTICE | 148 |
Punishment | 150 |
Forgiveness | 154 |
Breaking the Cycle | 155 |
SEARCHING FOR A NEW JUSTICE PARADIGM | 159 |
From Prison Abolition to a New Paradigm | 161 |
Reform vs Abolition | 162 |
Alternatives | 163 |
RestorativePeacebuilding Justice | 164 |
Problems with Restorative Justice | 166 |
Examples of Peacebuilding Justice | 168 |
AFSCs Twelvepoint Plan | 173 |
Conclusion | 186 |
NOTES | 189 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 193 |
INDEX | 202 |
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Page 97 - torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent...
Page 177 - I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body ; and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh, — because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear, — therefore I the more denounce it as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay. I hesitated once, debating with myself, whether,...
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