{"product_id":"what-we-know-9781620975305","title":"What We Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.\" —from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. \u003cem\u003eWhat We Know\u003c\/em\u003e collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vivian Nixon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48283741389051,"sku":"9781620975305","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781620975305.jpg?v=1772485496","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/what-we-know-9781620975305","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}