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New book: Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Meiners, E. R. (2007). Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies. London & NY, NY: Routledge 224 pages List price: paperback $33.95 Coincidence?or trend? This morning?s issue of Common Dreams includes an article titled ?ACLU Report Exposes Unjust Detention of Youth: Pre-Trial Juvenile Lockup in Massachusetts Disproportionately Impacts Youth of Color? (May 12, 2008). (http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0512-01.htm) Last weekend my social worker daughter railed at length about the hostility?abusiveness, actually?of a New York City judge who consistently refuses to release juvenile offenders to a demonstration program designed to keep them permanently out of jail. The judge is impervious to the fact that the city?s recidivism rate for juveniles who have been imprisoned is 80%, clearly demonstrating that what jail time most reliably yields?is more jail time...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).