Matthew W. Epperson & Carrie Pettus-Davis, Smart Decarceration: Achieving Criminal Justice Transformation in the 21st Century (2017).

Christopher Slobogin

A number of books and articles have taken aim at America’s mass incarceration debacle. Smart Decarceration, a multi-author edited volume, assumes that the tide has turned. As the editors point out in the first chapter, several states have begun depopulating their prisons, eliminating mandatory minima, and creating more alternatives to prison, a movement sometimes dubbed “Smart Sentencing.” Smart Decarceration is about the sequel. Authored by […]