TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Robert A.
TI  - Metamorphosis: how to transform punishment in America 
SN  - 9780300235296
AV  - HV9471 .F47 2018
U1  - 364.60973 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - United States
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Punishment
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Punishment in crime deterrence
KW  - True Crime
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social services & welfare, criminology
KW  - thema
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadequate. Some people believe that contracting out prison services to for-profit companies is a recipe for mistreatment. This text argues that these reforms barely scratch the surface of what is wrong with American prisons: an atmosphere of malice and humiliation that subjects prisoners and guards alike to constant degradation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300230833.001.0001
ER  -