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Introduction: defining decarceration.

Publication: Social Research
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Introduction: defining decarceration.(V. Alternatives to the Carceral State: A Panel Discussion)

Article Excerpt
THE MANDATORY SENTENCING CRAZE THAT SWEPT THE UNITED STATES during the late twentieth century distorted the civic landscape in ways that will be difficult to undo. The prison population was driven up tenfold, creating a large and growing felon class that is prone to recidivism and therefore likely to spend much of its life behind bars. Children who grow up visiting parents and siblings in prison have come to view incarceration as a perfectly normal part of life, if not a rite of passage into adulthood.

The prisons have meanwhile evolved into holding pens for the country's poorest, sickest citizens--and become hot spots for blood-borne diseases like HIV and hepatitis C, which can be transmitted among inmates who participate in unprotected sex or share dirty needles for intravenous drug use. The illnesses that fester behind bars don't just stay there. In city after city, most of the 650,000 people released from prison each year return to a handful of neighborhoods that are also epicenters of HIV and...

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