Browsing Georgetown Law Library by Creator "Vera Institute of Justice"
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Incarceration's front door : the misuse of jails in America
Vera Institute of Justice; Subramanian, Ram; Delaney, Ruth Elizabeth; Roberts, Stephen; Fishman, Nancy; McGarry, Peggy (Vera Institute of Justice, 2015-02-11)Local jails, which exist in nearly every town and city in America, are built to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at high risk of flight. This, however, is no longer primarily what jails do or ...