Beyond prisons : a new interfaith paradigm for our failed prison system / Laura Magnani, Harmon L. Wray.

A report by the American Friends Service Committee, Criminal Justice Task Force.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index.

History of a failed system -- The Philadelphia experiment -- The penitentiary system : religious roots -- The penitentiary system : philosophical roots -- The panopticon -- The development of the penitentiary system -- The dynamics of crime and punishment in America -- The problem -- The intersection of race and class -- Practicing white supremacy -- The legacy of economic dominance : class -- In our back yards : the penal system at the local level -- Policing -- In the courthouse : the U.S. adversarial legal system -- The pre-trial process -- County jails -- Probation and community corrections -- Taking local communities seriously -- Sentencing : the cold heart of the penal system -- The California example -- Federal sentencing policy -- Carrying out the drug war -- Three strikes -- The death penalty -- Throwing away the key : life without mercy -- Parole : the terminating program in the rehabilitative model -- Extra punishment for sex offenders -- Criminal records : the permanent punishment -- Cages : state and federal prisons today -- The corporatization of punishment -- Private prisons and accountability -- Prison guards -- The super-max and other forms of torture -- Manufacturing madness -- Prison gang policies : a threat to our security -- Political prisoners -- Immigrants in the criminal justice system -- Sexism -- Women -- Sexual relations and prison rape -- Transgender prisoners -- Prison and disability -- The mentaly ill -- Health care -- Spanning generations : impact of prisons on families -- Prison ministry -- Youth, poverty, and delinquency -- History of the juvenile justice system -- The language of demonization -- Criminalization of youth -- Creating gangs -- Zero tolerance -- An alternative vision of justice -- Survivors -- Punishment -- Forgiveness -- Breaking the cycle -- Searching for a new justice paradigm -- Can prisons rehabilitate -- From prison abolition to a new paradigm -- Reform vs. abolition -- Alternatives -- Restorative/peace-building justice -- Problems with restorative justice -- Examples of peace-building justice -- AFSC's twelve-point plan.