The meaning of life : the case for abolishing life sentences / Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis ; with six profiles of "lifers" by former lifer Kerry Myers.
Publisher: New York : New Press, [2018]Description: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781620974094 (hbk: alk. paper)
- 364.6 23
- HV8694 .M38 2018
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: lessons of "the birdman" -- Life by the numbers / Denise Dodson -- Policies that drive life sentences / Kelly Garrett and Justin Singleton -- Doing life -- "Death is different" / Sam Lewis -- The American commitment to punishment -- The meaning of life around the world / William Underwood -- The racial meaning of life -- The meaning of life for criminal justice reform / Anita Colon and Robert Holbrook -- The meaning of life for public safety -- Enacting a twenty-year maximum sentence / Willis X. Harris -- The future of life in america -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.
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