Abstract
Scholars and activists have directed increasing attention to the failure of the U.S. criminal legal system and the institutions of mass incarceration it has wrought and have identified the need for transformative changes in approaches to acts of harmful behaviors. Proponents of reforms have advocated for legal corrections to constrain sentencing practices, and remedy racial disparities in imprisonment to mitigate rates of incarceration and related punishments. COVID-19 release campaigns have revealed both the egregious conditions of prisons and the irrationality of punishment paradigms. Indeed, not a few abolitionists have repudiated the criminal legal system.
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