Too Easy to Keep: Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration

by Steve Herbert

Book Overview

"Some guys don't break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don't commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They're usually our easiest keepers."

Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisoners--the large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520300513
• ISBN13: 9780520300514
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"