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Guarded Hope: Lessons from the history of the prison boom by Robert Perkinson

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Navigating these uncertain waters, Abramsky, Gilmore, and Simon all conclude with guarded hope. Although California?s penal system has become one of the nation?s most crowded and dysfunctional in recent years, Abramsky cautiously praises Governor Schwarzenegger for revisiting the concept of prison-based rehabilitation. (Not long after American Furies went to press, the governor proposed sending 22,000 inmates home early to save money.) For his part, Simon hopes that aging baby boomers and the Katrina debacle will force a redirection of government attention from crime control to health care and infrastructure, a shift he believes will reinforce rather than erode social solidarity and public trust. Gilmore closes with a glowing case study of the grassroots political action group Mothers Reclaiming Our Children, an organization with almost no resources that has formulated a far-reaching anti-racist agenda that Gilmore proffers as a template for anti-prison activists everywhere...continue to full post

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