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Short Eyes by Miguel Pinero

In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts featured in Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

An Overview and History of the Penitentiary at Alcatraz

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Economic Impact of Prisons

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

Prison System and Privatization

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

Profiles of Female Prison Inmates

In ten pages this paper discusses incarcerated women in this overview of female prison inmate characteristics. Five sources are c...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Prison Labor Hazards

In seven pages this paper assesses the commercial labor uses of prison inmates in terms of the hazards they may pose. Eight sourc...

All Male Prisons and Preventing Female Guards from Working There

the level of violence in mens prisons. The limited empirical research available suggested otherwise and the rules were changed to ...

Articles on Counseling Examined

Six articles related to various types of counseling are discussed in seventeen pages and include among others such methods as viol...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and its Relevance

authors have done this as well. The book and film Midnight Express shows that other countries are not like the more civilized nati...

Eighteenth Century Social Reformer John Howard

In nine pages this research paper discusses John Howard's 18th century prison reform efforts. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

Protecting Prisons from HIV and AIDS

becomes the victim. By restricting the options and freedoms of the individual, control is thought to be maintained. The student ...

Prison System of the State of Texas

prison although no threats have been made on her life. In other celebrity cases, Texas saw singer David Crosby of Crosby, Stills,...

Evaluating the Fairness of Megan's Law

headline: "High-Risk Sex Offenders Identified: Post Reporter, 2 Ridge Residents on List" (Sheppard, 1997, p. 37). On July 7, Mei...

John Coggeshall's 'Ladies Behind Bars'

of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Worldwide Prison System Ineffectiveness

it seems that police pursue black people more often. The old "driving while black" mentality seems to be present in America today....

Probation Service and Ethics

absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Newgate Prison

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

Article Review of 'Luxuries in Prison' by Lenz

television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...

'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

Women and Incarceration Conditions

that the majority of women in prison are there for less violent crimes and that the majority may well be minorities. Interestingly...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

Prisons Should be Privatized

controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...

State of California and the Problem of Prison Overcrowding throughout the United States

p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...

Gobbet Analyses in the UK

treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...