Description
O’Hear tracks the effects of sentencing laws and politics in Wisconsin from the eve of the imprisonment boom in 1970 as much as the 2010s. Drawing on archival research, original public-opinion polling, and interviews with dozens of key policymakers, he reveals vital dimensions which were missed by others. He draws out lessons from the Wisconsin experience for the US as a complete, where mass incarceration has cost taxpayers billions of dollars and caused untold misery to millions of inmates and their families.