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FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), 33–34, 47, 54, 150, 166

Federal Bureau of Prisons, 121, 131, 134

Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 10, 80

fees, criminal, 129, 130, 143–44, 159, 160–61

Feingold, Russ, 47

Feinstein, Dianne, 132

Fellner, Jamie, 179–80, 197

financial compensation for wrongful convictions, 88, 90, 91

Financial Services Modernization Act, 152

Finley, Allysia, 106

firearms, 25

Flemmi, Stephen, 33–34

Fletcher, Anthony, 27–31, 196

Florida, 61, 64, 113, 137, 153, 197–98

Florida Department of Corrections, 132

Florida State University, 132

for-profit prisons. See private prisons

Forbes , 125–26, 130, 149

Foreman, George, 200

forgiveness of those wrongfully convicted, 88

Fortune Society of Queens, 202

Fountain, Wiley, 89–90

Fox News Channel, 15

framing the innocent, 92, 95–96

Franklin, Neill, 46

Freedom of Information Act, 132

Freeman, Kevin, 93–94

Freeman, Morgan, 42

Freudenreich, Oliver, 182

“Future, The” (Cohen), 195

gangs, deputy, 166–67

gangs, prison, 165–66, 168–70, 175

Garcia, Humberto Leal, 89

Gardner, John Albert, III, 181

Garrett, Brandon, 87

Gelb, Adam, 11

GEO Group, 116, 120–21, 139, 146

Gergen, Charlie, 115–18

Gershman, Robert, 94–95

Giffords, Gabrielle, 25, 181–82

Gingrich, Newt, 153

Giuliani, Rudolph, 189

Glass-Steagall Act, 152

Global Commission on Drug Policy report, 39–40, 42

Global Tel Link, 125

Goldberg, Jonah, 85–86

Goldman Sachs, 150–51

Goldstein, Thomas, 95

Gonzalez, Bryan, 53–54

Gonzalez, Jose A., Jr., 4

GOP, 153

Gramm, Phil, 55

Grann, David, 89

Grant, Natalie Renee, 28, 30

Grassley, Charles E., 56

Green, Andrea, 63

Greenspan, Alan, 123

Griffin, Neal, 22, 191–92

Grim, Ryan, 47

Gross, Samuel L., 85, 86, 87

G4S, 116

Guardian , 146

guards, prison

California labor union, 6, 73, 105–9, 111, 112–13

gangs, 166–67

mentally ill, 180

prisoner abuse, 166–69, 172, 173

private prisons, 127, 130

guilty pleas, 12–13

Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), 173

Gunn, Carl, 56

guns, 25

habitual-offender laws. See three-strikes laws

Hacker, Jacob S., 149

Halliburton, 120

Hardee, Cary, 137, 138

Harmon, Steve, 160

Harrington, Terry, 92

Harris, Kamala, 112

Haskell, Joe, 13–14

Hawken, Angela, 111

HBO, 91

health-care costs for inmates, 132, 197

hepatitis C, 174

Herbert, Bob, 191

heroin addiction, 43–44, 51, 199–200

Higher Education Act, 55

Hispanics, 77, 145, 168–69, 175, 189–90, 193

HIV/AIDS, 131, 173–74

Hobbs, Jerry, 98

Hoffman, Irv, 62–63, 64

Hoffman, Rachel Morningstar, 61–64

Holder, Eric, 56

Honda, 138

Hoops, Rod, 111

Hoover, J. Edgar, 34, 47

Horton, Willie, 11

Howard, Paul, 48

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation, 134

Hrvol, Joseph, 92

Hugo, Victor, 7, 16, 123

Human Rights Watch, 172–76, 179, 196–97

hunger strike, 171

Hyde Park Boxing Club, 188

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 143, 144

immigration detention centers, 143

immigration law, 144–45

immunity of prosecutors, 76, 92, 95, 203

incarceration costs, 11, 134, 197

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

income disparity, 147–51

Independent Committee on Reentry and Employment, 202

informants

confidential, 62–64

jailhouse, 28, 33, 95

police, 14, 31–34, 40

Innocence Project, The, 12–13, 91, 196

innocence projects, 12–13, 32–33, 76, 84, 86, 91, 112, 196. See also specific names of projects

innocence ratios, 85

innocents, convictions of, 84–88. See also specific names

Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, 198

International Association for Forensic and Correctional Psychology, 179

interpretations of the law, 68

Iole, Kevin, 188

Irving, J. Lawrence, 80

Ison, Brian, 10

Italian Mafia, 33–34

Jaffe, Jerome, 199–200

Jealous, Benjamin Todd, 189

Jindal, Bobby, 131–32

Job Corps, 200–201

Johnson, Jerry Wayne, 83–84

Johnston, Kathryn, 48

Jones, J. R., 137

Jones, John, 32–33

journalists, 15, 27

Juarez, Paulino, 166–67

Keating, Charles, 105

Keating, Frank, 127

Kennedy, Anthony, 6, 71–72, 110, 204

Kentucky, 42–43, 134

Kerlikowske, Gil, 46

Kilpatrick, Alina, 156

Klaas, Polly, 73–74

Kleiman, Mark, 23

Knopf, Anne, 157

Koch, Charles G., 148

Koch, David H., 133–34, 148

KPBS Radio, 11

labor, convict, 18, 135–39, 146

Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, 97–98

Langdon, Darrell, 21

Lappin, Harley, 131

Lavandera, Ed, 90

LCS Corrections Services, 146

lead, exposure to, 24

LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), 45, 46–47, 53–54

leases, convict, 136–38

legacy admission at universities, 151

Lemaitre, Rafael, 40

Leo, Richard A., 101

Les Misérables (Hugo), 7, 17, 123

Levenson, Laurie, 112

Lewis, Jerry, 144

Life , 43–44

lifers, 165

literacy of convicts, 111–12

lobbying, 6–7, 16, 25, 106, 113, 123, 128

Los Angeles County Jails, 166–68, 179

Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail, 166–67

Los Angeles Times , 196, 198

Loughner, Jared Lee, 181–82

Louisiana, 74, 94, 147

Madden, Jerry, 197

Mafia, Italian, 33–34

mandatory sentences

ALEC, 128

as a deterrent, 79

drug offenders, 9, 31, 45, 56–58

federal, 9–10, 80

sex offenders, 155–58

Mannix, Kevin, 138

marijuana, 46, 57–58, 189

Marshall, Max, 182

Martin, Andrew, 97, 98

Martin, Glenn, 202

Martinez, Al, 196

Martinez, Chris, 7, 69–70

Maruis, Joshua, 88

Mathematica Policy Research, 200

Mauer, Marc, 24–25

McCain, John, 171

McCoy, Allan, 66

McCranie, David, 63–64

McCrory, Mark, 50

McGhee, Curtis, 92

McMillan, John, 146

Menninger, Karl, 9

mental health services, 111, 112, 177–78, 182–83, 197

mentally ill, 6, 38, 101, 137, 177–83

Mermel, Michael, 97–99

Metallica, 100

Metcalf, Jack, 136

Michigan, 9, 113, 130, 197

Miller, Nathan, 42–43, 61, 79–80, 96, 134

Minnesota, 147, 159

minorities, 56, 77, 145, 168–69, 175, 189–91, 193

Mississippi, 130, 147

Misskelley, Jessie, Jr., 99–100

money-buys-privilege concept, 130

Mongo and Squeaky, 115–19

Montoya, Shawn, 53–54

Morgenstern, Marty, 109

Morris, John, 34

Morrison, Nina, 81

mortgage-lending, 152

Mother Jones , 84

Mullenaux, Casey, 20, 22–23

Murdoch, Rupert, 15

Murphy, Morgan, 199

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 56

Nahmias, David, 49

Napolitano, Janet, 144

Narcotics Anonymous, 201

National Alliance on Mental Illness, 112

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, 182

National Coalition for the Homeless, 178

National Conference of State Legislatures, 113

National Defense Authorization Act, 5

National Employment Law Project, 21

National Rifle Association, 73

Neal, David, 200

Nelson, Terry, 54

Nevada, 155–57