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Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice
State and local policies are key to understanding how to reduce prison populations. This anthology of critical and personal essays about the need to reform criminal justice policies that have led to mass incarceration provides a national perspective while remaining grounded in Michigan. Major components in this volume include a focus on current research on the impact of incarceration on minority groups, youth, and the mentally ill; and a focus on research on Michigan’s leadership in the area of reentry. Changes in policy will require a change in the public’s problematic images of incarcerated people. In this volume, academic research is combined with first-person narratives and paintings from people who have been directly affected by incarceration to allow readers to form more personal connections with those who face incarceration. At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasizes the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.
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Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice
State and local policies are key to understanding how to reduce prison populations. This anthology of critical and personal essays about the need to reform criminal justice policies that have led to mass incarceration provides a national perspective while remaining grounded in Michigan. Major components in this volume include a focus on current research on the impact of incarceration on minority groups, youth, and the mentally ill; and a focus on research on Michigan’s leadership in the area of reentry. Changes in policy will require a change in the public’s problematic images of incarcerated people. In this volume, academic research is combined with first-person narratives and paintings from people who have been directly affected by incarceration to allow readers to form more personal connections with those who face incarceration. At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasizes the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.
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Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice

Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice

Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice
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Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice

Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the National Debate in State Practice

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State and local policies are key to understanding how to reduce prison populations. This anthology of critical and personal essays about the need to reform criminal justice policies that have led to mass incarceration provides a national perspective while remaining grounded in Michigan. Major components in this volume include a focus on current research on the impact of incarceration on minority groups, youth, and the mentally ill; and a focus on research on Michigan’s leadership in the area of reentry. Changes in policy will require a change in the public’s problematic images of incarcerated people. In this volume, academic research is combined with first-person narratives and paintings from people who have been directly affected by incarceration to allow readers to form more personal connections with those who face incarceration. At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasizes the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611863383
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 12/01/2019
Edition description: 1
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lynn Orilla Scott is a retired Professor from James Madison College at Michigan State University who taught research writing classes on incarceration in the United States. She has published widely on the writing of James Baldwin and is a contributing editor to the James Baldwin Review.

Curtis Stokes is Professor of political theory and black politics in James Madison College at Michigan State University. He has edited and authored six books, including the award-winning Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies and The State of Black Michigan, 1967-2007.
 

Table of Contents

Foreword Charles Corley xii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Policing Black/Brown Communities inside/outside the United States: Neoliberalism and the Rise of the "Carceral State" in the Twenty-First Century Darryl C. Thomas 1

Youth of Color and Michigan's Juvenile Justice System Michelle Weemhoff Jason Smith 31

Basketballs Can Be a Bitch! Martin Vargas 59

Behind Bars: The Current State of U.S. Prison Literature D. Quentin Miller 65

A Sense of Solitary Confinement Phillip "UcciKhan" Sample 83

Solo's Life Narrative: Freedom for Me Was an Evolution, Not a Revolution Megan Sweeney 87

Outside the Fences: The Rewilding of the Motor City Viewed from a Prison Rand Gould 119

Criminal Justice, Disconnected Youth, and Latino Males in the United States and in Michigan Rubén O. Martinez Bette Avila Barry Lewis 121

Lox (The Wolverine): The Struggle to Express a Native American Identity in the Carceral State Aaron Kinzel 157

Mass Incarceration and Mental Illness: Addressing the Crisis Carolyn Pratt Van Wyck Elizabeth Pratt 177

What Works in Prisoner Reentry: Reducing Crime, Recidivism, and Prison Populations Dennis Schrantz 213

Conclusion 243

Contributors 249

Index 255

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