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Boston Review: 3 articles in Special Issue including: : "No Further Harm: What we owe to incarcerated fathers", "Guarded Hope:Lessons from the history of the prison boom" and "Reentry: Reversing mass imprisonment"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

JULY/AUGUST 2008--- Boston Review all at: http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/prison.php No Further Harm What we owe to incarcerated fathers by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley -------------------- Guarded Hope Lessons from the history of the prison boom by Robert Perkinson ----------------------- Reentry Reversing mass imprisonment by Bruce Western The British sociologist T.H. Marshall described citizenship as the ?basic human equality associated with full membership in a community.? By this measure, thirty years of prison growth concentrated among the poorest in society has diminished American citizenship. But as the prison boom attains new heights, the conversation about criminal punishment may finally be shifting. For the first time in decades, political leaders seem willing to consider the toll of rising incarceration rates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).