The Problem of Mass Incarceration

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.02.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Classroom Context
  3. Pedagogical Philosophy
  4. Curriculum Context
  5. Content Background
  6. Unit Content
  7. Teaching Strategies
  8. Classroom Activities
  9. Classroom Resources
  10. Bibliography
  11. Appendix
  12. Notes

Confronting Mass Incarceration in Tulsa

Sally Dee Cannizzaro

Published September 2019

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  1. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro, “Ending Mass Incarceration: Six Bold Reforms,” in Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health, ed. Ernest Drucker, (New York: The New Press, 2018), 22-40.
  2. Nancy Fishman, Rebecca Silber, Kelsey Reid, Stephen Roberts, and Navena Chaitoo, “Report to Tulsa County Stakeholders on Jail Reduction Strategies” (Vera Center on Sentencing & Corrections, Aug. 2017), 3.
  3. Becky Pettit, Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012), 14.
  4. Ted Gest, Crime and Politics: Big Government’s Erratic Campaign for Law and Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 8.
  5. Susan Burton and Cari Lynn, Becoming Ms. Burton (New York: The New Press, 2017), 6.
  6. James Kilgore, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (New York: The New Press, 2015), 155.
  7. National Institute on Drug Abuse, “How effective is drug addiction treatment?” (Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide, 3rd edition, Washington, D.C., last updated Jan. 2018).
  8. James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), 120-24.
  9. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2012) 89-90.
  10. Tulsa Municipal Jail, “Tulsa Sobering Center,” accessed May 3, 2019, https://www.tulsapolice.org/tulsa-municipal-jail/tulsa-sobering-center.aspx.
  11. Kevin Canfield, “Tulsa Sobering Center One Year Later: 47 People Visited Twice, and Saturdays are Busiest,” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK), July 10, 2019.
  12. “Substance Abuse and Homelessness,” (National Coalition for the Homeless Factsheet, Washington, D.C., July 2009).
  13. Community Service Council, “A Way Home for Tulsa,” accessed July 16, 2019, https://csctulsa.org/awh4t/.
  14. James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own, 124-44.
  15. Laura A. Kiernan, “Voters in D.C. Back Mandatory Sentence Plan,” Washington Post, Sept. 3, 1982.
  16. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro, “Ending Mass Incarceration: Six Bold Reforms,” 34-35.
  17. PEW Charitable Trusts, “Public Opinion on Sentencing and Corrections Policy in America” (PEW Charitable Trusts National Survey, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2012), 1, 3.
  18. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, 92-93.
  19. S.Q. 780 and S.Q. 781, Initiative Petitions 404 and 405 (Okla. 2016), https://www.sos.ok.gov/documents/questions/780.pdf.
  20. H.B. 1269, Sess. of 2019 (Okla. 2019), http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB1269&Session=1900.
  21. Damion Shade, “HB 1269 Makes 780 Retroactive but Leaves Issues Unresolved,” Oklahoma Policy Institute (blog), May 23, 2019, (updated May 28, 2019), https://okpolicy.org/hb-1269-makes-780-retroactive-but-leaves-issues-unresolved/.
  22. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, 90.
  23. Human Rights Watch, “Prison Conditions in the United States: A Human Rights Watch Report” (Human Rights Watch Report, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1991), 13-14.
  24. Susan F. Sharp, Melissa S. Jones, and David Axlyn McLeod, “Oklahoma Study of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children – 2014” (University of Oklahoma Department of Sociology, Norman, OK, Sep. 17, 2014), 2.
  25. Wendy Sawyer, “The Gender Divide: Tracking Women’s State Prison Growth” (Prison Policy Initiative Report, Northampton, MA, Jan. 9, 2018).
  26. Susan F. Sharp, ed., The Incarcerated Woman: Rehabilitative Programming in Women's Prisons (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003), 149.
  27. Human Rights Watch, “Prison Conditions in the United States: A Human Rights Watch Report” (Human Rights Watch Report, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1991), 11-14.
  28. James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own, 122.
  29. PEW Charitable Trusts, “Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility” (PEW Charitable Trusts Report, Washington, D.C., 2010), 18-19.
  30. Wendy Sawyer, “The Gender Divide”.
  31. Kevin Stitt, “Read Kevin Stitt’s Inaugural Address: Oklahoma’s Turnaround Starts Right Here, Right Now,” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK), Jan. 14, 2019.
  32. Madison Reichert, Anne Raun, and Ali Brooks, “Claremore Coffeehouse Offers Second Chance to Many,” Claremore Daily Progress (Claremore, OK), Apr. 6, 2016.
  33. A New Way of Life, “Services,” accessed Aug. 8, 2019, http://anewwayoflife.org/.
  34. Christopher A. Veeh, Margaret E. Severson, and Jaehoon Lee, “Evaluation of a Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Program in a Midwest State,” Criminal Justice Policy Review 28, no.3 (2017): 238–54.
  35. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro, “Ending Mass Incarceration: Six Bold Reforms,” 34-35.
  36. Peter Wagner, and Wendy Sawyer, “States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018” (Prison Policy Initiative Report, Northampton, MA, June 2018), https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018.html.
  37. “Oklahoma Profile” (Prison Policy Initiative Report, Northampton, MA, accessed July 14, 2019).
  38. Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration,” American Sociological Review 69, no.2 (2004): 151-169.
  39. Nancy Fishman, Rebecca Silber, Kelsey Reid, Stephen Roberts, and Navena Chaitoo, “Report to Tulsa County Stakeholders on Jail Reduction Strategies” (Vera Center on Sentencing & Corrections, Aug. 2017), 4.
  40. Susan F. Sharp, Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014), 29-30. Ibid, 33.
  41. Still She Rises, “The Issue: Unique Challenges Facing Women in the Criminal Justice System,” accessed May 3, 2019, https://www.stillsherises.org/.
  42. Aleks Kajstura, “States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2018” (Prison Policy Initiative Report, Northampton, MA, June 2018).
  43. Nancy Fishman, Rebecca Silber, Kelsey Reid, Stephen Roberts, and Navena Chaitoo, “Report to Tulsa County Stakeholders on Jail Reduction Strategies” (Vera Center on Sentencing & Corrections, Aug. 2017), 4.
  44. Susan F. Sharp, ed., The Incarcerated Woman: Rehabilitative Programming in Women's Prisons (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003), 4-5.
  45. James Kilgore, Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time (New York: The New Press, 2015), 155.
  46. Corey Jones, “After Half-Century of ‘Rapidly’ Rising Tulsa County Incarceration Rate, Early Indicators Show Turning Tide,” Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK), Sep. 16, 2018.

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