“Simon的观点十分独到……令读者不得不信服，同意大规模监禁的政策……是本世纪最大的人权滥用之一。”——《洛杉矶书评》
“本书非常巧妙地批判了美国监狱体系……Simon的著作可读性强，论证有力，应当受到更多的关注。”——《出版人周刊》
“对于刑事司法改革抱有乐观主义的又一征兆。”——David Cole，《纽约书评》
“非常精彩……Simon展示了创新的法律机制，以论证大规模监禁与该国过去偏离民主的方针如出一辙。”——《纽约法律杂志》
“任何相信美国在民主环境下不会折磨入狱者的读者只需要阅读Simon的这本书，就会明白他们的这种想法是多么天真。”——Truthout
“可读性很强，非常出色。我会向任何对美国监狱问题感兴趣的读者推荐这本书。”——Todd Clear
“Jonathan Simon 是当代最杰出的犯罪学家之一。”——Nikolas Rose，伦敦经济学院
“Simon’s arguments are unique…it’s hard not to agree with Simon that the policies of mass incarceration…are one of the greatest human rights abuses in this century.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
“An impassioned plea for prison reform grounded in human dignity…a sound, sobering report.”—Kirkus
"An eloquent critique of the American prison system…Simon’s accessible and powerful book deserves widespread attention."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Yet another sign of the new optimism about criminal justice reform."—David Cole, New York Review of Books
"Remarkable…In mapping a way forward, Simon introduces innovative legal devices to ensure that mass incarceration joins the nation’s past aberrations from our democracy."—New York Law Journal
"Simon fits the numbers into a frame that renders them disturbingly intelligible."—Inside Higher Ed
"Anyone who believes that the United States does not torture prisoners in domestic lock-up need only read Jonathan Simon’s book…to be disabused of this delusion."—Truthout
"Both a useful guide to Plata and an effective polemic against the United States’ excessive reliance on prisons."—Reason
“A masterful job of assessing the qualitative shift in the court’s analysis on human rights concerns as they apply to our notorious prison system, the book points the way to a legal strategy premised on human dignity as a means of challenging mass incarceration.”—Marc Mauer, executive director, The Sentencing Project, and author of Race to Incarcerate
“A powerful critique of California’s use of mass incarceration combined with an inspiring vision of a hopeful future created by landmark court decisions.”—Jules Lobel, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
“Highly readable, stunning stuff. California is at the epicenter of a new American debate about prison policy and Simon’s remarkable book places the state’s travails in national and historical context. I recommend it to anyone interested in the problem of prisons in America.”—Todd Clear, author of The Punishment Imperative
“[Jonathan Simon is] one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation.”—Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics