Too Easy to Keep (eBook)

Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration

Steve Herbert (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
184 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97187-5 (ISBN)

Infos

';Some guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest keepers.' Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisonersthe large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive interviews with lifers and with prison staff, Too Easy to Keep charts the challenges that a life sentence posesboth to the prisoners and to the staffers charged with caring for them. Surprisingly, many lifers show remarkable resilience and craft lives of notable purpose. Yet their eventual decline will pose challenges to the institutions that house them. Rich in data, Too Easy to Keep illustrates the harsh consequences of excessive sentences and demonstrates a keen need to reconsider punishment policy.

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Easy Keeper

1. Becoming Easy

2. Being Easy Isn’t Easy

3. When Easy Becomes Hard

4. Let’s All Be Easy


Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: american prisoners • challenges • crafting lives of notable purpose • dying in prison • eventual decline • excessive sentences • growing population • harsh consequences • inmates • Institutions • jail • life in prison • Lifers • life without parole • Neglected • Prison • Prison staff • reconsider punishment policy • serving life sentences
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97187-6 / 0520971876
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97187-5 / 9780520971875