America`s Jails – The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration

Americas Jails\nby Derek Jeffreys\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Derek Jeffreys\nTitle: Americas Jails\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Penology and punishment\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479814824\nISBN-10: 1479814822\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nA look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates \n\nTwelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large populations of legally innocent people waiting for a trial. Jails often have deplorable sanitary conditions, and there are countless records of inmates being brutaliz.