Ivan Goldman - Sick Justice - Inside the American Gulag

Blackburn, Jeffrey, 84

blacks, 56, 189, 190, 191, 193

Blackstone, William, 84–85

Blackstone ratio, 85

Bloomberg, Michael R., 25

Blow, Charles M., 189

BMJ (British Medical Journal) , 202

Boas, Paul, 12

Border Patrol, 53–54

Borenstein, Isaac, 41

Boulle, Pierre, 96

Bowers, Josh, 13

Bowles, Samuel, 148

BoxingInsider.com, 30

Bozella, Dewey, 91

Bradshaw, Deneilo, 63, 64

Brady v. Maryland , 76

Branson, Sam, 42

Bratton, William J., 189–90

Breaking the Taboo , 42

Breckenridge, Wilmer, 59–60, 196

Brennan Center for Justice, 159–60

Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins, 19–20

Brewer, Jan, 145

Breyer, Stephen, 196

Bridge over the River Kwai, The (Boulle), 96

broken windows policing, 189–90

Brown, Jerry, 20, 107, 108–9, 110–11

Budnick, Scott, 167

Bulger, James “Whitey,” 33–34

Bureau of Justice, U.S., 171

Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S., 19, 23, 172

Burge, Gerald, 95

Burke, Edmund, 187

Bush, George H.W., 11, 153

Bush, George W., 151, 175

Bush, Jeb, 153

California

bail, 12

higher education system, 108, 126, 198

incarceration costs and state budget, 11, 125–26, 134

less harsh sentencing, 198

prison guard union, 6, 73, 105–9, 111, 112–13

prisoner release, 19, 20, 198

prisons, 109–11, 112–13, 126, 134

prosecutor misconduct, 76

Riverside County, 160–61

three-strikes laws, 6, 16, 65, 68, 71–74, 107, 198

California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), 105–9, 111, 112–13

call centers, convict, 136

Campbell, Chad, 133

Campos, Romy, 145

Canada, 24

Cardozo School of Law, 12, 86

carjacking, 79

Carrillo, Francisco, 88

Carter, Jimmy, 40, 41, 42

cash-register justice, 38

Cassell, Paul, 10–11

Cassidy, Robert, 30

Cate, Matthew, 110

Cato Institute, 202

CBP (Customs and Border Protection), 47–48

CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), 125–27, 131–34, 144, 146

CCPOA (California Correctional Peace Officers Association), 105–9, 111, 112–13

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, 135–36

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, British, 47

Centre for Research on Globalization, 138–39

Chavez, Jesus, 165–66

Chettiar, Inimai, 42

Chicago Public Schools, 21

Chicago Tribune , 21, 28, 99

child molesters, 164

child pornography, 10–11

children of prisoners, 18, 187

Christie, Chris, 58

Christopher, Vaughn, 27–28, 29–30

Citizens United ruling, 152, 170

civil immunity for prosecutors, 76, 92, 95, 203

Clement, Paul D., 95

Cline, Phillip, 75–76, 77

Clinton, Bill, 4, 42, 55, 152, 153

Clinton, Hillary, 4, 144

Cohen, Leonard, 195

Cole, Reggie, 32–33

Cole, Timothy, 83–84

collection agencies, 9

collective punishment, 55, 153

Collette, Michelle, 41

Collins, Scott, 33

Colorado, 58

Commodity Futures Modernization Act, 152

community-domain supervision and rehabilitation, 199

Community Mental Health Act, 177

Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, 80

confessions, false, 76, 86, 100–101

confidential informants, 62–64

Connick, Harry, Sr., 93

Connolly, John, 33–34

“Consequences of Neglect” (Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy), 198

convict-manufactured goods, 138–39

conviction-integrity units, 86

conviction rates, 6, 7, 11, 19, 25, 134

convictions, wrongful, 12–13, 28, 33, 86–88

convicts

aging of, 11, 196–97

assaults on, 120–21, 130–31, 166–67, 173–75

counting of in federal systems, 170–71

gangs, 165–66, 168–70, 175

labor, 18, 135–39, 146

life of ( see prisons, life in)

lifers, 165

literacy, 111–12

paperwork, 163–64

Cook County Jail, 179

Cooley, Steve, 110

Correctional Officer Academy, 106

Correctional Privatization Commission, 132

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), 125–27, 131–34, 144, 146

Corrections USA, 112

corruption

prosecutors, 8–9, 28, 30, 33, 75–76, 92–95, 203

war on drugs, 47–49

Cosma, Sofia, 135

costs of incarceration, 11, 134, 197

county jails, 12, 124

California, 20, 110–11, 160, 166–67, 179

court-appointed attorneys, 79–80

court-ordered payments, 158

crack-cocaine, 23, 47, 56–57

Crapser, Emma, 91

crime, redefining the meaning of, 203

Crime and Delinquency , 132

Crime Victims United, 73, 106

criminal justice system. See also specific aspects of

background, 4–7, 8–13, 15–18

failure of and effects on society, 198–99

needed reform, 197–98, 201–4

crystal meth, 44–45

Cunningham, Kevin, 188

Cuomo, Andrew, 8

Cuomo, Mario, 14

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S., 47–48

Cutler, Dale, 66–67

Davey, Joseph Dillon, 149–50

Davis, Gray, 107, 109

Davis, Joe, 72–73

Davis, Lois, 110–11

Davis, Miles, 44

Davis, Richard, 73–74

Davis, Troy, 90

Dayan, Colin, 171–72

De Sica, Vittorio, 68

DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), 10, 31, 46

dealers as informants, drug, 31–32, 38, 40

death row inmate exonerations, 12, 28, 87, 93–94

DeBruin, Nick, 50

debtors, 9, 151, 158–60

decriminalization of drugs, 45, 48

Demuth, Stephen, 193

Departed, The , 33–34

deportation detainees, 143, 145

Deukmejian, George, 107

Devereux, Sheila, 49–51

Devine, Johnny, 63

DNA testing, 12

post conviction, 12, 20, 33, 84, 86–88, 90, 98

pre-conviction, 97, 100

Dockery, Paula, 197–98

Doerner, Jill, 193

Dole, Bob, 153

Donahue, Kevin, 77–79

Doty, David, 158

Dougan, Barbara, 31

Draconian code history, 159

Drizin, Steven A., 101

drug consumption

addiction, 13–14, 22, 37, 43–45, 199–200

arrests and imprisonment for, 37–38, 40–41, 46, 49

decriminalization, 45, 48

increase, 40

most harmful, 47

prevention and rehabilitation, 45–46, 107, 109, 110–11, 197, 199–200

societal context, 147

testing for, 107, 153

drug courts, 61–62

drug dealers as informants, 31–32, 40

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 10, 31, 46

drug importation, 41

drug trafficking, 43, 202

drugs, war on. See war on drugs

dual-diagnosis behavior, 38

Dukakis, Michael, 11

Dunn, James, 66, 67

Dutton, Bob, 110

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 85

Ealy, Tony, 31–32

early release of prisoners, 19–20, 56, 130, 198

Echols, Damien, 99–100

Echols, DeJarion, 57

Eighty-First Precinct in Brooklyn, 192–93

elected court officers, 77–78

electronic monitoring, 197

Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons (U.S. Justice Department), 130–31

Ensign, John, 138

evidence, misconduct with law enforcement, 48–50

prosecutors, 8, 28, 30, 33, 75–76, 93–95

exonerations, 12, 28, 86–88, 91, 93–94

life after, 89–90

factory girls, Soviet, 72

Fagan, Jeffrey, 190–91

Fallin, Mary, 41

false confessions, 76, 86, 100–101

false testimony, rewarding, 28, 32–33, 92

families of prisoners, 18, 129, 187, 201

FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums), 31, 57, 156, 196

Fappiano, Scott, 88

Fasano, Mike, 198