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Bestselling category: The New Press is the country’s leading criminal justice publisher. Invisible Punishment, also an anthology, sold over 13,300 copies combined.

Unparalleled expertise: Ernest Drucker “owns” the idea of mass incarceration as an epidemic, and is the leading public health scholar of criminology.

Success of previous book: A Plague of Prisons sold over 5,000 copies was extremely well-received, including a positive review by Michelle Alexander in the Washington Post, as well as The Economist and sixteen others; Drucker did radio interviews about the book with Lopate, and many others.

Constructive solutions: The reform movement is hungry for positive models for change, and this book is full of them.

Contributors: Big names in the fields of criminology, healthcare, mental health, prison economies.

Blurbs: We will solicit blurbs from Marc Mauer, Alicia Garza, Susan Burton, Bryan Stevenson.

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A powerful call for reform.
NPR

An all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end mass incarceration

Mass incarceration will endthere is an emerging consensus that weve been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America collects some of the leading thinkers in the criminal justice reform movement to strategize about how to cure America of its epidemic of mass punishment.

With sections on front-end approaches, as well as improving prison conditions and re-entry, the book includes pieces by leaders across the criminal justice reform movement: Danielle Sered of Common Justice describes successful programs for youth with violent offenses; Robin Steinberg of the Bronx Defenders argues for more resources for defense attorneys to diminish plea bargains; Kathy Boudin suggests changes to the parole model; Jeannie Little offers an alternative for mental health and drug addiction issues; and Eric Lotke offers models of new industries to replace the prison economy. Editor Ernest Drucker applies the tools of epidemiology to help us cure what he calls "a plague of prisons."

Decarcerating America will be an indispensable roadmap as the movement to challenge incarceration in America gains critical massit shows us how to get people out of prisons, and the more appropriate responses to crime. The ideas presented in this volume are what we are fighting for when we fight against the New Jim Crow.

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