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Recalling the human realities of mass incarceration

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader sent me a link to this potent essay titled, "Society of the Incarcerated: Acknowledging the Voices of America's Ever-Increasing Prison Population."  The lengthy piece is worth a full read; here are some excerpts:Who talks about prisoners these days?  Certainly not the US presidential candidates or most others up for election in 2008, unless it?s in tangential ?get tough on crime? rhetoric. In the media, quality coverage such as Jeff Gerritt?s Pulitzer-nominated series on medical care in Michigan prisons, which appeared last year in The Detroit Free Press, is overshadowed by courtroom dramas and legal thrillers.... Authentic communication from and about prisoners exists, but it?s relegated to a niche market outside of most print and online news sources, of influential political blogs, of the catalogues of big publishers, and of the speeches of election year candidates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).