"Serious students of modern sentencing reforms—as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration—must have this book on their reading list. O'Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin's uniquely important sentencing reform history."—Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog
"Fascinating political and social history. O'Hear puts national criminal justice trends into a single-state frame, providing much sharper insights than often come from trying to look at the entirety of this very big country. This is first-rate work."—Frank O. Bowman III, University of Missouri School of Law
“Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested in learning more about effective sentencing reform.”—New York Journal of Books