Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

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Beyond Prisons

A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

By Laura Magnani and Harmon L. Wray

 

Beyond Prisons is a critique of America's prisons and a strategy towards
abolition.  This strong indictment of the current system, undertaken by
two respected experts on behalf of the American Friends Services
Committee, traces the history and features of our penal system, offers
strong ethical and moral assessments of it, and lays out a whole new
paradigm of criminal justice based on restorative or transformative
justice and reconciliation. 

 

It explores the economic and racial effects of the present system,
including the death penalty and offers twelve concrete steps for
changing America's prison system

 

Bound to stir debate and reflection, Beyond Prisons opens a long-needed
national dialogue on our responsibilities as citizens and as a nation to
provide remediation rather than mere retributive incarceration,
answerable to the common good and faith-based understandings of justice.

 

Laura Magnani is Assistant Regional Director for Justice for the
American Friends Service Committee in Oakland, California and author of
America's First Penitentiary:  A 200 Year Old Failure. (AFSC, 1990) 

 

Harmon L. Wray is director of  the Vanderbilt Program in Faith and
Criminal Justice and author of Restorative Justice: Moving beyond
Punishment (General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist
Publishing House, 2002).

 

"Not just another book on criminal justice systems. Beyond Prisons is a
jewel, working like a finely crafted prism to illumine many features of
a new paradigm for justice needed in the USA today. Scholars and
teachers will value its critical yet concise introduction to enduring
debates in criminal justice. Informed activists will prop this book up
alongside their phones and photocopying machines for ready reference to
the key issues at stake."

- Mark Lewis Taylor, Professor of Theology and Culture, Princeton
Theological Seminary and author of The Executed God: The Way of the
Cross in Lockdown America

 

Beyond Prisons is available now from Fortress Press
<http://www.augsburgfortress.org/> .  To order, click here.
<http://www.augsburgfortress.org/fortresspress/store/item.asp?ISBN=08006
38328&CLSID=177290&PRODUCTGROUPID=-1&infoid=17959> 

 

 

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