Mass Incarceration Fiction

Crime fiction was once popular in dime store novels. Today, it is a progressive industry with annual expenditures of $100s of millions. Decades of world-record failure have only seen it become more powerful. The Sentencing Project, Brennan Center, Vera Institute, Prison Policy Initiative, Equal Justice Initiative, and Harvard Institute to End Mass Incarceration are the same people—the anti-prison utopians—who sent crime skyward in the 1960s.

These organizations sit at the top. The Sentencing Project alone has links to 76 other national and 220 state organizations. The Vera Institute alone has assets, expenditures, and revenue of $245 million. The goals are the same: to undercut traditional criminal justice, close prisons, and even claim that probation is overly punitive.