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New Hampshire, 147

New York, state, 67, 113

New York Bar Association, 129

New York City, 189–90

New York Innocence Project, 33, 76

New York Police Department (NYPD), 49, 189–90, 192–93

New York Times , 40, 93–94, 97, 98, 170, 189, 191

New York Times Magazine , 29

New York World , 137, 138

New Yorker , 89

news, 15, 27

Nicolaysen, Jeff, 113

Nike, 138

9/11 effect, 8

Nixon, Richard, 41, 199

“No Rhyme or Reason” (Cuomo), 8

Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, 107

Norinsberg, Jon, 193

Norquist, Grover, 153

North Carolina, 86

North Carolina Law Review , 100–101

Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP), 32–33, 76

Novey, Don, 105–6

Nowlin, Edwina, 159

Obama, Barack, and administration, 5, 40, 46, 56, 144–45, 152

Occupy Wall Street movement, 4, 150

Office of National Drug Control Policy, 42

Oklahoma, 127–28, 158

older prisoners, 196–97

Otto, James D., 23

outsourcing of jobs to prisons, 136, 138–39

Owen, Steve, 133

Packard, Richard, 65

Paige, Rod, 189

Paine, Thomas, 65

paperwork, prisoner, 163–64

Park, Hydow, 31

Parker, Ann, 180–81

Parker, Atiba, 180–81, 196

parole, 9, 20–21, 37, 197, 198

parole officers, 16, 111, 160

Pasco, Jim, 56

Patriot Act, 46–47

Patrizio, Stephen, 29–30

payday lenders, 159

Pearce, Russell, 144

Perkinson, Robert, 24

Perry, Rick, 84, 88–89, 90

Pew Center on the States studies, 11, 19, 197

Pew Center’s Public Safety Performance Project, 11

Pew Charitable Trusts, 21, 151

pharmaceutical manufacturers, 44

Philadelphia , 29

phony weapons charge, 191–92

Pickens, Robert, 59

Pickett, Kate, 147, 150

Piehl, Anne, 24

Pierson, Paul, 148, 149

ping-pong, 166

Piven, Frances Fox, 124

plea bargains, 12, 13, 28, 87, 196

police brutality, 178–79

politicians, 9, 11, 25, 105–6, 113, 129

politicizing prosecutorial duties, 77, 92

Pope, David Shawn, 90

population, prisoner

aging of, 11, 196–97

California, 111

death row rates, 87

growth of, 5, 6, 9, 41, 125, 149

private prisons, 127–28

Texas, 197

Portugal, 201–2

Possley, Maurice, 76

poverty, 129, 150, 189

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

preventive detention, 16

prison-industrial complex, 4, 18, 124, 170. See also specific aspects of

Prison Legal News , 172

Prison Life Magazine , 172

Prison Rape Elimination Act, 175

prisons

California, 109–11, 112–13, 126, 134

closings, 113

federal, 115

funding, 106, 126

guards ( See guards, prison)

life in ( See prisons, life in)

politicians building to gain votes, 105–6

private ( See private prisons)

prisons, life in

guard on prisoner violence, 166–69

learning violence, 169

prisoner on prisoner violence, 163–66

slipping between the cracks, 181

Pritchett, Susie, 40

private prisons, 7

author’s experience, 115–18

CCA, 125–27

deportation detainees, 143, 146

GEO Group, 116, 120–21, 139, 146

Oklahoma, 127–28

problems, 130–34

profit motive incongruity, 123–27, 143, 204

revenues, 131, 146

probation, 13, 197

prohibition, 47, 202

Proposition 5, 107

Proposition 36, 65–66, 69, 113, 198

Proposition 66, 107

Proposition 184, 73

prosecutors

civil immunity, 76, 92, 95, 203

losing sight of their job, 81, 96–99

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

politicizing, 77–78

rewarding witnesses, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92

seeking stiffest penalties, 13

protective custody (PC), 171

public defenders, 79–80

Puryear, Gus, 132

Putnam Lumber Company, 137

quotas, 192–93

Rachel’s Law, 64

racial issues in prisons, 168–69, 175

Ramos, Manuel, 178–79

Rand, Ayn, 153

RAND corporation drug study, 45–46

rape, prison, 172–76, 203

Raphael, Steven, 193

Reagan, Ronald, 41

Reason Foundation, 133–34

reasonable suspicion, 190, 191

Reavey, Peggy, 37–38, 44

recidivism, 132, 199

Reed, Robert, 58

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

rehabilitation programs, 109, 110–11

rent-a-convict system, 136–38

Renwick, Trudi J., 150

Republican party, 153

Resurrection After Exoneration, 93

Resurrection (Tolstoy), 195–96

rewarding testimony, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw, 24

Reynolds, Kimber, 72–73

Reynolds, Mike, 73

Rich, Marc, 4

Richards, Keith, 43–44

Richter, David, 92

Ridolfi, Kathleen, 76

Right on Crime, 153

Rights of Man, The (Paine), 65

Riker’s Island, 179

Ring , 30

riots, prison, 109, 131

Rivera, Juan, 97–98

Riverside County, California, 160–61

Roberts, John, 94–95

Roberts court, rulings of, 92, 93, 94–95, 152, 170

Robins, Lee, 199–200

Rockefeller, David, 150

Rockefeller, Nelson, 9

Rockefeller drug laws, 9, 15

Roll, John, 25, 182

Romano, Michael, 112

Rosenberg, Linda, 183

Rosenberg, Tina, 29

Rothmiller, Mike, 31, 39, 52–53, 178–79

Rummel, Heidi, 110

Rushford, Michael, 24

Russell, Patrick, 79, 124

Ryan, William C., 65

Saez, Emmanuel, 149

San Francisco Chronicle , 109

San Quentin State Prison, 109, 139

Sanders, Bernie, 152

Santayana, George, 159

Sather, Joshua, 167

SB 1070, Arizona, 144

Scalia, Antonin, 19, 20

Scheck, Barry, 86

Scheidegger, Kent, 24

schizophrenia, 178, 179, 182

Schoolcraft, Adrian, 192–93

Schumacher Group, 183

Schwartzapfel, Beth, 84

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 107

Scorsese, Martin, 33–34

Scott, Rick, 153

security, bureaucratic, 5

security housing unit (SHU) syndrome, 171–72

Seiter, Richard P., 132–33

sentences, 6, 10–11, 15, 156, 193. See also mandatory sentences

Sentencing Commission, U.S., 80

Sentencing Project, 189

Sentencing Reform Act, 10, 80

Session, Ruby, 83–84

sex offenders, 155–57

Sheen, Martin, 107

Shein, Marcia G., 58–60, 196

Shortey, Ralph, 158

Simpson, Alan, 153

Singh, J.K., 51–52

single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels for mentally ill, 177–78

Sintring, Ake, 30

Smith, Felicia, 183

Smith, Lamar, 56

sneak-and-peek search warrants, 47

Sodersten, Mark, 75

solitary confinement, 171–72

solving crimes, 99

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 72, 173

South Dakota, 130

Southern Center for Human Rights, 160

Soviet convict labor, 135

Spain, 6

Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention, 199–200

specialized courts, 61–62, 201

Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (Wilkinson and Pickett), 147

Spottedcrow, Patricia Marilyn, 40–41

staffing jails and prisons, 119–20, 131

Staker, Holly, 97

Stamper, Norm, 46, 47

Stanford experiment, 119

Stanford Innocence Project, 112

Stanford Law and Policy Review , 24

Starr, Delita, 40

Stateville Correctional Center, 165

Steele, Robert, 199

Stern, Vivien, 7

Stevens, Jacqueline, 143