<b>Finalist for the Media for a Just Society Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency</b>
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<br />“Simon's arguments are unique…it's hard not to agree with Simon that the policies of mass incarceration…are one of the greatest human rights abuses in this century.”<br />—<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>
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<br />“An impassioned plea for prison reform grounded in human dignity…a sound, sobering report.”<br />—<i>Kirkus</i>
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<br />"An eloquent critique of the American prison system…Simon's accessible and powerful book deserves widespread attention."<br />—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)<br />
<br />“Yet another sign of the new optimism about criminal justice reform."<br />—David Cole, <i>New York Review of Books</i>
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<br />"Remarkable…In mapping a way forward, Simon introduces innovative legal devices to ensure that mass incarceration joins the nation's past aberrations from our democracy."<br />—<i>New York Law Journal</i>
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<br />"Simon fits the numbers into a frame that renders them disturbingly intelligible."<br />—<i>Inside Higher Ed</i>
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<br />"Anyone who believes that the United States does not torture prisoners in domestic lock-up need only read Jonathan Simon's book…to be disabused of this delusion."<br />—<i>Truthout</i>
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<br />"Both a useful guide to Plata and an effective polemic against the United States' excessive reliance on prisons."<br />—<i>Reason</i>
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<br />“A masterful job of assessing the qualitative shift in the court's analysis on human rights concerns as they apply to our notorious prison system, the book points the way to a legal strategy premised on human dignity as a means of challenging mass incarceration.”<br />—Marc Mauer, executive director, The Sentencing Project, and author of <i>Race to Incarcerate</i>
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<br />“A powerful critique of California's use of mass incarceration combined with an inspiring vision of a hopeful future created by landmark court decisions.”<br />—Jules Lobel, president, Center for Constitutional Rights<br />
<br />“Highly readable, stunning stuff. California is at the epicenter of a new American debate about prison policy and Simon's remarkable book places the state's travails in national and historical context. I recommend it to anyone interested in the problem of prisons in America.”<br />—Todd Clear, author of <i>The Punishment Imperative</i>
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<br />“[Jonathan Simon is] one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation.”<br />—Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics