New York City Success Story: Leaving ‘Mass Imprisonment’ Behind (Column)

New York City Success Story: Leaving ‘Mass Imprisonment’ Behind (Column)

2.20.2020

By Vincent Schiraldi

The Crime Report mentioned the Task Force on the Parole System’s report.

At the beginning of the new millennium, New York University sociologist David Garland coined the phrase “mass imprisonment” to describe the United States’ “rate of imprisonment…that is markedly above the historical and comparative norm for societies of this type.”