Race to Incarcerate

From the publisher:

As we enter a new century, Race to Incarcerate tells the chilling story of the unprecedented explosion in the prison population during the last twenty-five years. In "an important book [that] lays out convincing arguments" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), Marc Mauer, assistant director of The Sentencing Project, analyzes the main trends of America's war on drugs in the last two decades, showing how those policies have emphasized rigid control--through police and prisons--over drug treatment and economic development, resulting in a five-fold increase in the use of incarceration since 1973. Written in conjunction with the leading national organization monitoring American criminal-justice policies, Race to Incarcerate is an "informative--and often disturbing--glimpse of the US prison system and those it affects"