Rethinking Incarceration
Advocating for Justice That Restores
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Mirron Willis
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The United States has five percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's incarcerated. We have more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. There are more jails and prisons than degree-granting colleges and universities, and in many places, more people live behind bars than on college campuses. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed to these problems.
In Rethinking Incarceration, Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity's role in its evolution and expansion. He assesses our nation's ethic of meritocratic justice in light of Scripture and exposes the theologies that embolden mass incarceration. Gilliard then tells how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles, offering creative solutions and highlighting innovative interventions. God's justice is ultimately restorative, not just punitive. Discover how Christians can participate in the restoration and redemption of the incarceration system.
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On top of which, the fact that the author is only calling for an end to "MASS" incarceration, and therefore, merely preaching reform and not abolition also means that he's ignoring his own arguments. Because just as the police cannot be 'Reformed,' the fact that as he himself points out, the entire concept of imprisonment is built upon the conceit that so-called 'Criminals' are a separate, inferior threat from which society needs to be protected means that it can never be reformed into a method to achieve the restorative justice which he advocates. Instead, the starting point for restorative justice must inevitably be that the person convicted of committing a crime is a person to be rehabilitated, treated, and in short, always regarded as a human being who committed a crime. Not an animal to be caged, a problem to be dealt with or a legal slave to be exploited. So while, as I say, this book does contain some vital insights into the nature of the problem, there are other, far superior and thoroughly secular books such as "The New Jim Crow" & "Chokehold" which I would recommend first. And unless you're an American Christian who needs arguments and Biblical citations to help convince fellow Christians that Mass Incarceration is a problem, then I'd recommend skipping the second half altogether.
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