RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksMarc Mauer and Ashley Nellis ... expose grave injustices in a broken system and advance the discussion by adding new insights addressing reform, not just for nonviolent drug offenders, but for all prisoners ... Roth [and] Mauer...expose the excessive nature of punishment in the criminal justice system and how this cripples the most vulnerable in the United States. Even more significant...[they] open a dialogue for including violent offenders in prison reform efforts ... The prisoner accounts...lay bare the consequences of a system that illogically sees value and futurity in locking up generations of people for life ... propose compelling policy and alternatives to prison, and...move an important discourse on prison reform forward in a time when both sides of the political aisle are poised to act ... thoroughly outlined and argued ... [this book]...add[s] to a discourse of prison reform that we should not be ready to forfeit.
