Since the turn of the 21st century, a proliferation of empirical and theoretical scholarship has developed regarding mass incarceration in the United States. This work has grappled with its causes, contours, and consequences and has led to numerous important insights about how we arrived at our current state of overincarceration and about its human and economic impact. Yet, as I hope to tease o...

The article presents the results of a comprehensive study medical care for convicts in penitentiary institutions Republic Kazakhstan, implemented 2021 with support Representative Office Penal Reform International (International Prison Reform) Central Asia United Nations Development Program Kazakhstan and Commissioner Human Rights Ministry Internal Affairs Kazakhstan. A significant part belong t...

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a one man social revolution. He was a lawyer who sought to reform the penal code. He designed the first high surveillance jail. He founded University College London. He drafted the first new South American constitutions for his friend Simon Bolivar. And when he died his will stated that his body should be stuffed and dressed in his clothes so that he could still p...

Spelman’s (2009, this issue) analysis calls into question the popular contention among many antiprison activists and other penal reformers that the U.S. prison boom is bound to end soon because states just cannot afford it anymore. States have had extremely deep pockets to build more prisons even in hard times, and the availability of state revenues to pay for more prison beds has been a leadin...