Rethinking America's correctional policies: commonsense choices from uncommon voices

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Pre-incarceration

Plea bargaining and using children to coerce cooperation

Children at arrest

An Alford plea conundrum

Incarceration

Time fades to grey

The yard ball paradox : before time turns grey

Vernon can't read : prison education

Doing the schizophrenic shuffle : mental health and psychopharmacology

Abe's abscess

Deliberate indifference or indifferently deliberate : how the slow pace of prison health care killed Matthew

End of life care

Post-incarceration

Walking around money and the bus to nowhere

Get a J-O-B

Burned bridges

Conclusion: RAP'ing up

Bibliography

About the authors.