{"product_id":"death-before-sentencing-ending-rampant-suicide-overdoses-brutality-and-malpractice-in-americas-jails-9781538162279","title":"Death before Sentencing: Ending Rampant Suicide,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath before Sentencing provides a comprehensive description of America’s 3,000 plus county and local jails being ignored by the media, politicians, and even criminal justice reformers. Jails have largely escaped scrutiny for deaths in their facilities for several reasons. First, the nation’s jails are local affairs. Even repeat jail deaths warrant no more than limited local coverage at most. Jails are mostly run by sheriffs, often the most powerful and largely untouchable political figure in a local community. Third, the families of deceased jail inmates do not usually have the resources to sue or socioeconomic clout to be heard demanding jail accountability for loved ones’ deaths. And lastly, many understood jail deaths as occurring from “natural causes,” the verdict medical examiners and coroners erroneously employ to allow those responsible for the deaths to escape any accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book constitutes the most complete investigation of the deadly side of jails, describing the daily deaths of detainees, including those from suicides, drug and alcohol withdrawal, forced restraint and brutality, as well as medical malpractice. Andrew R. Klein with Jessica L. Klein show how the failure of jail oversight by state correctional officials, state and county prosecutors, state police as well as sheriffs, medical examiners, and coroners allows for the secrecy surrounding and the cover up of jail deaths. Through a growing number of wrongful death lawsuits and the increasing role of the media in uncovering the truth about deadly jails, communities, led by the grieving families, are working to hold jailers and their medical providers accountable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book concludes with hopeful signs of reforms being initiated by the U.S. Justice Department under President Biden, state legislatures, successful lawsuits, and reformers as well as suggests the major institutional reforms required to stop the daily deaths in America’s jails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Jails vs Prisons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooking vs Non-Booking Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolice Lockups\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunicipal Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTribal Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrivate Prisons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A Step Back: How America Invented Prisons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Jails and Prisons Today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Numbers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOVID-19 Jail Exodus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: How Did America Become the World’s Biggest Jailer?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCash Bail and Bail Bondspersons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeinstitutionalization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRacism and the War on Drugs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbation and Parole, Recycling Inmates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Death in Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedical Examiners, Coroners and “Natural Deaths”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuicides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRacism and Brutality, They Can’t Breathe in Jails, Too\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeapons of Detainee Destruction: Tasers, WRAP, Pepper Spray, and Restraint Chairs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJails’ Toxic Environments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrug and Alcohol Toxicity and Withdrawal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurity and Medical Providers Team Up to Deprive Care\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJail Medical Providers (Making Money, Limiting Care)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Getting Away with Murder, The Failure to Hold Jails Accountable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheriffs Investigate Themselves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounty Prosecutors Cover for Deadly Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eState Review of Jails Tepid and Ignored\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eU.S. Justice Department Ends Custody Death Investigations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFighting Accountability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Grieving Families Left to Attempt to Hold Jails Accountable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJail Withdrawal Wrongful Death Lawsuits Awards\/Settlements Growing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Signs of Hope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolding Corrections Officer Accountable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncreasing Media Coverage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncreasing Prosecutorial Scrutiny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElecting Reform Sheriffs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebirth of U.S. Justice Department Oversight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvicting For Profit Medical Providers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven Medical Examiners?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawsuits Bear Fruit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Ending America’s Deadly Jails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnding Correctional Medicine through Medicaid Expansion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncreasing Jail Oversight\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041217839447,"sku":"9781538162279","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538162279.jpg?v=1750949396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-before-sentencing-ending-rampant-suicide-overdoses-brutality-and-malpractice-in-americas-jails-9781538162279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}