Langdon, Darrell, 21
Lappin, Harley, 131
Lavandera, Ed, 90
LCS Corrections Services, 146
lead, exposure to, 24
LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), 45, 46–47, 53–54
leases, convict, 136–38
legacy admission at universities, 151
Lemaitre, Rafael, 40
Leo, Richard A., 101
Les Misérables (Hugo), 7, 17, 123
Levenson, Laurie, 112
Lewis, Jerry, 144
Life, 43–44
lifers, 165
literacy of convicts, 111–12
lobbying, 6–7, 16, 25, 106, 113, 123, 128
Los Angeles County Jails, 166–68, 179
Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail, 166–67
Los Angeles Times, 196, 198
Loughner, Jared Lee, 181–82
Louisiana, 74, 94, 147
Madden, Jerry, 197
Mafia, Italian, 33–34
mandatory sentences
ALEC, 128
as a deterrent, 79
drug offenders, 9, 31, 45, 56–58
federal, 9–10, 80
sex offenders, 155–58
Mannix, Kevin, 138
marijuana, 46, 57–58, 189
Marshall, Max, 182
Martin, Andrew, 97, 98
Martin, Glenn, 202
Martinez, Al, 196
Martinez, Chris, 7, 69–70
Maruis, Joshua, 88
Mathematica Policy Research, 200
Mauer, Marc, 24–25
McCain, John, 171
McCoy, Allan, 66
McCranie, David, 63–64
McCrory, Mark, 50
McGhee, Curtis, 92
McMillan, John, 146
Menninger, Karl, 9
mental health services, 111, 112, 177–78, 182–83, 197
mentally ill, 6, 38, 101, 137, 177–83
Mermel, Michael, 97–99
Metallica, 100
Metcalf, Jack, 136
Michigan, 9, 113, 130, 197
Miller, Nathan, 42–43, 61, 79–80, 96, 134
Minnesota, 147, 159
minorities, 56, 77, 145, 168–69, 175, 189–91, 193
Mississippi, 130, 147
Misskelley, Jessie, Jr., 99–100
money-buys-privilege concept, 130
Mongo and Squeaky, 115–19
Montoya, Shawn, 53–54
Morgenstern, Marty, 109
Morris, John, 34
Morrison, Nina, 81
mortgage-lending, 152
Mother Jones, 84
Mullenaux, Casey, 20, 22–23
Murdoch, Rupert, 15
Murphy, Morgan, 199
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 56
Nahmias, David, 49
Napolitano, Janet, 144
Narcotics Anonymous, 201
National Alliance on Mental Illness, 112
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, 182
National Coalition for the Homeless, 178
National Conference of State Legislatures, 113
National Defense Authorization Act, 5
National Employment Law Project, 21
National Rifle Association, 73
Neal, David, 200
Nelson, Terry, 54
Nevada, 155–57
New Hampshire, 147
New York, state, 67, 113
New York Bar Association, 129
New York City, 189–90
New York Innocence Project, 33, 76
New York Police Department (NYPD), 49, 189–90, 192–93
New York Times, 40, 93–94, 97, 98, 170, 189, 191
New York Times Magazine, 29
New York World, 137, 138
New Yorker, 89
news, 15, 27
Nicolaysen, Jeff, 113
Nike, 138
9/11 effect, 8
Nixon, Richard, 41, 199
“No Rhyme or Reason” (Cuomo), 8
Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, 107
Norinsberg, Jon, 193
Norquist, Grover, 153
North Carolina, 86
North Carolina Law Review, 100–101
Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP), 32–33, 76
Novey, Don, 105–6
Nowlin, Edwina, 159
Obama, Barack, and administration, 5, 40, 46, 56, 144–45, 152
Occupy Wall Street movement, 4, 150
Office of National Drug Control Policy, 42
Oklahoma, 127–28, 158
older prisoners, 196–97
Otto, James D., 23
outsourcing of jobs to prisons, 136, 138–39
Owen, Steve, 133
Packard, Richard, 65
Paige, Rod, 189
Paine, Thomas, 65
paperwork, prisoner, 163–64
Park, Hydow, 31
Parker, Ann, 180–81
Parker, Atiba, 180–81, 196
parole, 9, 20–21, 37, 197, 198
parole officers, 16, 111, 160
Pasco, Jim, 56
Patriot Act, 46–47
Patrizio, Stephen, 29–30
payday lenders, 159
Pearce, Russell, 144
Perkinson, Robert, 24
Perry, Rick, 84, 88–89, 90
Pew Center on the States studies, 11, 19, 197
Pew Center’s Public Safety Performance Project, 11
Pew Charitable Trusts, 21, 151
pharmaceutical manufacturers, 44
Philadelphia, 29
phony weapons charge, 191–92
Pickens, Robert, 59
Pickett, Kate, 147, 150
Piehl, Anne, 24
Pierson, Paul, 148, 149
ping-pong, 166
Piven, Frances Fox, 124
plea bargains, 12, 13, 28, 87, 196
police brutality, 178–79
politicians, 9, 11, 25, 105–6, 113, 129
politicizing prosecutorial duties, 77, 92
Pope, David Shawn, 90
population, prisoner
aging of, 11, 196–97
California, 111
death row rates, 87
growth of, 5, 6, 9, 41, 125, 149
private prisons, 127–28
Texas, 197
Portugal, 201–2
Possley, Maurice, 76
poverty, 129, 150, 189
prevention and rehabilitation of drug use, 45–46, 107, 109, 110–11, 197, 199–200
preventive detention, 16
prison-industrial complex, 4, 18, 124, 170. See also specific aspects of
Prison Legal News, 172
Prison Life Magazine, 172
Prison Rape Elimination Act, 175
prisons
California, 109–11, 112–13, 126, 134
closings, 113
federal, 115
funding, 106, 126
guards (See guards, prison)
life in (See prisons, life in)
politicians building to gain votes, 105–6
private (See private prisons)
prisons, life in
guard on prisoner violence, 166–69
learning violence, 169
prisoner on prisoner violence, 163–66
slipping between the cracks, 181
Pritchett, Susie, 40
private prisons, 7
author’s experience, 115–18
CCA, 125–27
deportation detainees, 143, 146
GEO Group, 116, 120–21, 139, 146
Oklahoma, 127–28
problems, 130–34
profit motive incongruity, 123–27, 143, 204
revenues, 131, 146
probation, 13, 197
prohibition, 47, 202
Proposition 5, 107
Proposition 36, 65–66, 69, 113, 198
Proposition 66, 107
Proposition 184, 73
prosecutors
civil immunity, 76, 92, 95, 203
losing sight of their job, 81, 96–99
misconduct, 8–9, 28, 30, 33, 75–76, 92–95, 203
politicizing, 77–78
rewarding witnesses, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92
seeking stiffest penalties, 13
protective custody (PC), 171
public defenders, 79–80
Puryear, Gus, 132
Putnam Lumber Company, 137