Presidents and Mass Incarceration: Choices at the Top, Repercussions at the Bottom - Paperbackby Linda K. Mancillas (Author) Taking an innovative approach, this book looks at how U. S. presidents and their administrations' policies from the late 1960s to 2017 have led to rampant over imprisonment and a public policy catastrophe in the United States. Mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes and you're out" legislation, harsher sentences, and less parole and probation the result of draconian criminal justice policies in the last six decades