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is interesting to note that while increased efforts to incarcerate people have not proven necessarily effective, there are still m...

training" (Murphy, 2005, p. 23). As a prisoner, the author observed prison culture from the perspective of a participant. Various ...

of ethnic minorities in the prison system in the modern era. In his work Stigma: Notes on the Management of Soiled Identity, Goff...

or orchestrate the smuggling of more contraband" (16). In another state, the state of Arkansas, "Prison officials...see the spread...

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

parents and students; it appears that the students, teachers and community members in Boston do not agree (Wildstrom, 2002). Wild...

of psychological maladaptions. The "guards" took on sadistic tendencies and the "prisoners" showed extreme signs of stress and dep...

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

solve the problem of offenders like Jack, saying the country is still in the throes of determining the best methods for "dealing w...

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...

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

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

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

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

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

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

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

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

these goals and to perform its duties, the Federal Reserve Bank has a number of specific strategies it uses, such as discount rate...

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

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...