American prisons are seriously overcrowded, perhaps more than ever in our history. Before the era of mass incarceration, prisoner advocates sought to build on progressive penological ideas about the proper standards for housing prisoners, which focused on one person to each prison cell to create a jurisprudence of overcrowding that might compel states to reduce their reliance on incarceration. The goal failed, and states adopted tough new sentencing laws that increased imprisonment. As the prison book got under way, the Supreme Court decisively rejected the one person to a cell rule in the 1981 case of Rhodes v. Chapman. This Essay returns to this failed jurisprudence to argue that it has been outdated by a fundamental transformation in the...
Overcrowding in prison can impact significantly on prisoners’ health, access to education and traini...
In the past 10 years, the number of prisoners increased rapidly from 13,000 to 20,500 and the insuff...
This article decribes prision overcrowding and The War on Prisoners - how the nation\u27s criminal...
American prisons are seriously overcrowded, perhaps more than ever in our history. Before the era of...
American prisons are seriously overcrowded, perhaps more than ever in our history. Before the era of...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
Contemporary responses to the notion of advancing a ‘sense ’ of criminal justice through tougher pen...
In the past two decades American courts have decided numerous cases involving the constitutionality ...
In the past two decades American courts have decided numerous cases involving the constitutionality ...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Overcrowding (having more prisoners than a facility can humanely accommodate) is directly connected ...
State prison overcrowding has grown into a detrimental problem within our American penal system, suc...
After more than twenty years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court finally determined wheth...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Prison overcrowding has become a topic of national conversation over the last decade. Numerous cour...
Overcrowding in prison can impact significantly on prisoners’ health, access to education and traini...
In the past 10 years, the number of prisoners increased rapidly from 13,000 to 20,500 and the insuff...
This article decribes prision overcrowding and The War on Prisoners - how the nation\u27s criminal...
American prisons are seriously overcrowded, perhaps more than ever in our history. Before the era of...
American prisons are seriously overcrowded, perhaps more than ever in our history. Before the era of...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
Contemporary responses to the notion of advancing a ‘sense ’ of criminal justice through tougher pen...
In the past two decades American courts have decided numerous cases involving the constitutionality ...
In the past two decades American courts have decided numerous cases involving the constitutionality ...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Overcrowding (having more prisoners than a facility can humanely accommodate) is directly connected ...
State prison overcrowding has grown into a detrimental problem within our American penal system, suc...
After more than twenty years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court finally determined wheth...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Prison overcrowding has become a topic of national conversation over the last decade. Numerous cour...
Overcrowding in prison can impact significantly on prisoners’ health, access to education and traini...
In the past 10 years, the number of prisoners increased rapidly from 13,000 to 20,500 and the insuff...
This article decribes prision overcrowding and The War on Prisoners - how the nation\u27s criminal...