quotas, 192–93
Rachel’s Law, 64
racial issues in prisons, 168–69, 175
Ramos, Manuel, 178–79
Rand, Ayn, 153
RAND corporation drug study, 45–46
rape, prison, 172–76, 203
Raphael, Steven, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 41
Reason Foundation, 133–34
reasonable suspicion, 190, 191
Reavey, Peggy, 37–38, 44
recidivism, 132, 199
Reed, Robert, 58
rehabilitation and prevention of drug use, 45–46, 107, 109, 110–11, 197, 199–200
rehabilitation programs, 109, 110–11
rent-a-convict system, 136–38
Renwick, Trudi J., 150
Republican party, 153
Resurrection After Exoneration, 93
Resurrection (Tolstoy), 195–96
rewarding testimony, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92
Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw, 24
Reynolds, Kimber, 72–73
Reynolds, Mike, 73
Rich, Marc, 4
Richards, Keith, 43–44
Richter, David, 92
Ridolfi, Kathleen, 76
Right on Crime, 153
Rights of Man, The (Paine), 65
Riker’s Island, 179
Ring, 30
riots, prison, 109, 131
Rivera, Juan, 97–98
Riverside County, California, 160–61
Roberts, John, 94–95
Roberts court, rulings of, 92, 93, 94–95, 152, 170
Robins, Lee, 199–200
Rockefeller, David, 150
Rockefeller, Nelson, 9
Rockefeller drug laws, 9, 15
Roll, John, 25, 182
Romano, Michael, 112
Rosenberg, Linda, 183
Rosenberg, Tina, 29
Rothmiller, Mike, 31, 39, 52–53, 178–79
Rummel, Heidi, 110
Rushford, Michael, 24
Russell, Patrick, 79, 124
Ryan, William C., 65
Saez, Emmanuel, 149
San Francisco Chronicle, 109
San Quentin State Prison, 109, 139
Sanders, Bernie, 152
Santayana, George, 159
Sather, Joshua, 167
SB 1070, Arizona, 144
Scalia, Antonin, 19, 20
Scheck, Barry, 86
Scheidegger, Kent, 24
schizophrenia, 178, 179, 182
Schoolcraft, Adrian, 192–93
Schumacher Group, 183
Schwartzapfel, Beth, 84
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 107
Scorsese, Martin, 33–34
Scott, Rick, 153
security, bureaucratic, 5
security housing unit (SHU) syndrome, 171–72
Seiter, Richard P., 132–33
sentences, 6, 10–11, 15, 156, 193. See also mandatory sentences
Sentencing Commission, U.S., 80
Sentencing Project, 189
Sentencing Reform Act, 10, 80
Session, Ruby, 83–84
sex offenders, 155–57
Sheen, Martin, 107
Shein, Marcia G., 58–60, 196
Shortey, Ralph, 158
Simpson, Alan, 153
Singh, J.K., 51–52
single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels for mentally ill, 177–78
Sintring, Ake, 30
Smith, Felicia, 183
Smith, Lamar, 56
sneak-and-peek search warrants, 47
Sodersten, Mark, 75
solitary confinement, 171–72
solving crimes, 99
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 72, 173
South Dakota, 130
Southern Center for Human Rights, 160
Soviet convict labor, 135
Spain, 6
Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention, 199–200
specialized courts, 61–62, 201
Spirit Leveclass="underline" Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (Wilkinson and Pickett), 147
Spottedcrow, Patricia Marilyn, 40–41
staffing jails and prisons, 119–20, 131
Staker, Holly, 97
Stamper, Norm, 46, 47
Stanford experiment, 119
Stanford Innocence Project, 112
Stanford Law and Policy Review, 24
Starr, Delita, 40
Stateville Correctional Center, 165
Steele, Robert, 199
Stern, Vivien, 7
Stevens, Jacqueline, 143
Stone, Jed, 81
Stone, Jeff, 160
stop-and-frisks, 189–91, 192
Stored Communications Act, 5
Strickland, Greg, 106
Tabert, Martin, 137–38
Tavarez, Henry, 49
Taylor, Gregory, 66–67
Taylor, Michael, 66
Taylor, Michelle Lyn, 155–57
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, 137
testimony, rewarding false, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92
testing for drugs, 107, 153
Texas, 88–90, 113, 137, 173, 197
Thomas, Clarence, 94
Thomas, Kelly, 178–79
Thompson, Hunter, 4, 42
Thompson, John, 92–95
three-strikes laws
California, 6, 16, 65, 68, 71–74, 107, 198
gain and loss of force, 67
Louisiana, 74
Oklahoma, 50
overview, 15–16, 67–68
punishment not fitting the crime, 49–52
Tiahrt Amendment, 25
Time, 46
Tolstoy, Leo, 195–96, 204
Tomsheck, James, 48
Tonry, Michael, 24
Torrez, Jorge, 98
Treatment Advocacy Center, 178
tribal loyalty of drug addicts, 43
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 203
Turner, Pamela Rogers, 157
Twin Towers Correctional Facility, 167
two-strikers, 69–71, 74
Tyson, Mike, 15, 189
undercover agents, police using convicts as, 62–64
unemployment rates, 189, 193, 202
Unicor, 136
unindicted coejaculator theory, 97–98
union, California’s prison guard, 6, 73, 105–9, 111, 112–13
University of California, 108
University of Michigan study, 86–87
University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 198
Urban Development Corporation, 15
USA Today, 8–9
Useem, Bert, 24
user fees, 160–61
Valencia, Brenda, 3–4, 17, 28, 38, 126, 136, 187–88, 201
Valjean, Jean, 7, 16–17
Van Vleet, Russ, 133
Vance, Cy, Jr., 86
veterans courts, 201
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 89
Vilca, Daniel, 10
Village Voice, 192
violence, law distinction of, 68
violence in prison
guard on prisoner, 166–69
learning, 169
prisoner on prisoner, 163–66
violence ratio, 23
violent crime, decrease in, 23–24
Volstead Act, 202
Wackenhut, 116, 120–21
Walker, Douglas, 72
Wall Street Journal, 106, 158
Wall Street Reform Act, 152
Waller, Michael, 97, 98
Wallis, Greg, 90
war on drugs
corruption, 47–49
cost, 46
counterproductivity of, 9, 39–43
imprisonment of users, 37–38, 40–41, 46, 49
legislation affecting offenders for life, 55–60
Warren, Elizabeth, 148–49
Washington, 58, 67–68, 111
welfare, 55, 108, 153
Welfare Reform Act, 55
Wells, Harold R., 50
West Memphis Three, 99–100, 101
Wexler, Chuck, 25
Whitman, James, 7
Whitman, Meg, 108
Wilkinson, Richard, 147, 150
Williams, Jerry DeWayne, 7
Willingham, Cameron Todd, 89
Wilson, John Ray, 57–58
Wilson, Pete, 107
Windom, Gary, 161
Winner-Take-All Politics (Hacker), 149
Wise, Donald, 91
witnesses, rewarding, 27–28, 32–33, 49, 92
women’s courts, 201
Wood, Evan, 173–74
Woodbury, Gary, 156