Professor John Pfaff‘s book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration was reviewed this month by the Washington Free Beacon.
In Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration, John Pfaff takes these causes—what he calls the “standard story”—to task. Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham University and a scholar of economics and law, presents a compelling account of mass incarceration, backed by robust statistics, to argue that current reforms are merely low-hanging fruit and will fail to bring about any meaningful reduction in the incarcerated population. Rather, to address the 2.3 million American prison inhabitants, reform efforts must address the relevant problems on a more fundamental level.
Read the review here.
