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Books on: prisons and prisoners

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The State of Our Prisons

Book by Roy D. King, Kathleen McDermott; Clarendon Press, 1995

Subjects:

Criminal Justice, Administration Of--Great Britain, Criminals--Rehabilitation--Great Britain, Imprisonment--Great Britain, Prison Discipline--Great Britain, Prisoners--Health And Hygiene--Great Britain, Prisons--Great Britain

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...how safe or dangerous each prison was for the staff who worked...pattern is reversed. In each prison the prisoners generally regarded it as a...albeit that the low-security prisons were seen as safer than the...Birmingham the staff perceived the prison to be a dangerous working...
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Prisons and the Problem of Order

Book by Richard Sparks, Anthony E. Bottoms, Will Hay; Clarendon Press, 1996

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Hm Prison Long Lartin, Prison Administration--Great Britain--Case Studies, Prisoners--Great Britain--Case Studies, Prisons--Great Britain--Case Studies

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movement within the prison. Prisoners in general were well...than other dispersal prisons, giving rise at least...limit the scale of the prisons legitimacy deficit see...those of other dispersal prisons. Prisoners had significantly...movement within the prison, more frequent access...
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Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights

Book by Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell, Rodney Neufeld; Clarity Press, 2003

Subjects:

Corrections--Contracting Out, Corrections--Contracting Out--United States, Human Rights, Human Rights--United States, Prison Administration, Prison Administration--United States, Prisoners--Civil Rights, Prisoners--Civil Rights--United States, Privatization, Privatization--United States

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...expansions while two entirely new prisons have been constructed: the...main concerns about the new prisons is the move toward the superjail...pods. Inside each pod, 192 prisoners are housed together. There are six identical pods in each prison, holding in total approximately...recreation area. 22 These prisons allow for optimal visual...patrolling ranges or manage prisoner movement through keyed doors...
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Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison

Book by Ann Chih Lin; Princeton University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States, Prisoners--United States--Social Conditions, Prisons--Government Policy--United States

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...are, the ways that prisoners and staff deal with...Antelope Valley, the prison where the interview...lieutenant to dress down a prisoner for missing night classes. In other prisons, this would never...the evening for the prisoner to miss...Federal Bureau of Prisons, prisoners are assigned to a...counselor handles the prisoner's in-prison needs: his work...
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Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Book by Adam Reed; Berghahn Books, 2003

Subjects:

Prison Discipline--Papua New Guinea, Prison Psychology--Papua New Guinea, Prisoners--Papua New Guinea--Social Conditions, Prisons--Papua New Guinea

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...circle entertained. The task, as prisoners describe it, is to shorten time...in North American and British prisons. Prisoners are said to be concerned to achieve...same ambitions are expressed by prisoners at Bomana, but with the added...

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Journal Articles on: prisons and prisoners

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Working with Emotionally Disturbed Prisoners: Experiences in a Prison Treatment Program for Youthful Offenders

Journal article by Russell Eisenman; Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 2003

Subjects:

Criminal psychology, Juvenile offenders--Care and treatment, Juvenile offenders--Psychological aspects, Mentally ill teenagers--Care and treatment, Prison psychology, Prisoners--Care and treatment, Prisoners--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...prisoners: experiences in a prison treatment program for youthful...worked at a very unusual prison. In most prisons, the prisoners receive no...But, I was working at a prison treatment program, designed...quality professionals. The prisoners were juvenile delinquents...Often this was because the prisoner was too weak or immature...
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Prisoners for Sale: Making the Thirteenth Amendment Case against State Private Prison Contracts

Journal article by Ryan S. Marion; The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 18, 2009

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Civil rights, Constitutional amendments, Construction contracts, Corporate profits, Cost reduction, Industrialized nations, Legal arguments, Prison industries, Prison overcrowding, Prisoners, Slavery

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...maintaining the prison, as well as...state, the prisoners contribute to...success of these prisons at annual reviews...Additionally, prisoner labor reduces...and that the prisons are filled and well kept by prison labor.187...taxpayers consider prisoners a drain on resources...between the prisoner in a private...held that a prisoner is an "employee...employees of their prisons, either public...The private prison thus exploits these prisoners to make profit...
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Race, Repatriation, and Galvanized Rebels: Union Prisoners and the Exchange Question in Deep South Prison Camps

Journal article by Glenn M. Robins; Civil War History, Vol. 53, 2007

Subjects:

Exchange of prisoners--Political aspects, Exchange of prisoners--Social aspects, Military prisons--History, Military prisons--Political aspects, Military prisons--Social aspects, Prisoners of war--Health aspects, Prisoners of war--Political aspects, Prisoners of war--Social aspects, Prisons, Military--History, Prisons, Military--Political aspects, Prisons, Military--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--History

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...camps, Union prisoners of war (POWs...examine the Union prisoner-of-war...large-scale prisoner release. They...implemented prison policy and...of Southern prisons tend to examine...within the prison community that...conflicts, prisoners were exchanged...Confederate prisons. By September...gripped the prison population...920 more prisoners" joined Umsted...politics from the prisoner-exchange...
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Dark Tourism and the Celebrity Prisoner: Front and Back Regions in Representations of an Australian Historical Prison

Journal article by Jacqueline Zara Wilson; Journal of Australian Studies, 2004

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Prisons--Analysis, Read, Mark Brandon--Personal narratives

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...was typical of most prison-public front-region...Of course, not all prisoners are inclined toward...equally well to the prisons front region. A Pentridge prisoner with a propensity...officers to go about the prison armed, on the premise...faire approach to prisoner administration, arguably...widespread (in some prisons affecting approximately...in four young male prisoners) (62) and has a...imprisonment itself. Of all prison experiences, it is...
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Political Conflict Confronted through Prison Education: a Case Study of Israeli Teachers Working with Palestinian Prisoners

Journal article by Dalia Ben-Tsur; Journal of Correctional Education, Vol. 58, 2007

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Access to education, Conflict resolution, Effectiveness, Language teachers, Learning, Palestinians, Prisons, Students, Terrorism

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...feelings about going to the prisons themselves. I shall now go...the teachers described the prison-students In their interviews...feel about going in to the prisons to teach these students. Teachers Descriptions of the Prisoners and Their Feelings about Teaching...the teachers described the prison-students during the Interviews...

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Magazine Articles on: prisons and prisoners

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Special Report: All-prison Hunger Strike by Palestinian Political Prisoners Ignites Widespread Demonstrations

Magazine article; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XI, November 30, 1992

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Civil rights, Correctional institutions, Crime, Demonstrations & protests, Human relations, Human rights, Interpersonal communication, Israel, Personal relationships, Political dissent, Politics, Prisoners, Prisons

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...Over the past year, prisoners have reported to human...reduced, attempts by prisoners to negotiate with prison authorities for better...treated harshly and prisoner representatives beaten or transferred to other prisons. Conditions have become...often are denied by prison administrators to punish...policy of isolating prisoners in small, unventilated...
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Catch and Release: The Inevitable Consequence of America's High Incarceration Rate Is a High Prison-Release Rate-And the Prisoners Getting out Are Often More Violent or Antisocial Than They Were before. It's Time to Rethink-And Rebuild-Rehabilitation and Parole

Magazine article by Margaret Talbot; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, January 2003

Subjects:

Prisoners--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Prisons--Social aspects

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...and eliminated funding for prisoner education. As a result, prison sentences have grown longer while prisons have become places where...return. "Our contemporary prisons basically replicate the social...Until the early 1980s prison education and rehabilitation...educational programs for prisoners have dwindled steadily...
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Iraqi Prisoners Abused in Abu Ghraib Prison

Magazine article; Army, Vol. 54, June 2004

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Abu Ghraib Prison-Iraq, Army-US, Courts martial, Criminal investigations, Human rights, Military personnel, Prisoner treatment

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Iraqi Prisoners Abused in Abu Ghraib Prison The Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad was the scene of "numerous incidents of...Taguba. The world was stunned by images of abusive prison guards posing with inmates in demeaning or threatening...
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Mine-shaft Prisons Slammed: African Bishops Shocked by Plan to Lock Up "animal" Prisoners in Underground Jail

Magazine article; Anglican Journal, Vol. 123, April 1997

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Prisons, South Africa

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Mine-shaft Prisons Slammed: African Bishops...Plan to Lock Up "animal" Prisoners in Underground Jail East London...as "super maximum security prisons" in South Africa has been...increasing overcrowding in prisons and a high number of prison escapes. According to figures...
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On Dope Row: An Exclusive Insight Investigative Report Reveals That Scores of Inmates Are Dying of Drug Overdoses in America's State Penal Institutions, While Administrators Deny That Their Prisons Have a Drug Problem. Here Are the Numbers, and Why According to Prisoners and Guards the Illegal Drug Trade Is Flourishing Behind Bars

Magazine article by Timothy W. Maier; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, February 25, 2002

Subjects:

Drug addicts--Mortality, Prisoners--Drug use

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...of INSIGHTS state-prison survey. For each category...analysis of drug use in prison, visit INSIGHTS Website...Overdoses 1990-2000 (prisons) (prisoners) MD 22,642 SD 2...years. The private prisons also have been uncooperative...abuse issues. "Most prisoners have drug-addiction...coordinator for the National Prison Project of the American...

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Newspaper Articles on: prisons and prisoners

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Extra Three Months Jail for Punching a Guard in Prison; Prisoner with History Says He Will Ignore Correctional Officer Next Time

Newspaper article; The Queensland Times (Ipswich, Australia), April 18, 2011

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Prisoners, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jail for Punching a Guard in Prison; Prisoner with History Says He Will...caldwell@qt.com.au A PRISONER who punched a guard in the...heard guards were shutting prisoners in their cells for the night...who appeared in court from prison via a video link, pleaded...
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Swine Flu Protest at Prison PRISONERS [...

Newspaper article; July 17, 2009

Subjects:

Prisoners, Prisons, Swine influenza

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Swine Flu Protest at Prison PRISONERS ...; 4 INMATES. Swine flu protest at prison PRISONERS refused to return to their cells at a...four inmates contracted suspected swine flu.. Prison guards moved to quell disorder in HMP Liverpool...
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The Intolerable Incarceration of Prisoner 11810; Can a Prison Possibly Justify Treating Its Inmates with Saunas, Sunbeds and Deckchairs If That Prison Has the Lowest Reoff Ending Rate in Europe? Live Reports from Norway on the Penal System That Runs Contrary to All Our Instincts - but Achieves Everything We Could Wish For

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 8, 2011

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Prisoners, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...realise that closed prisons are the old-fashioned...for small children. Prisoners are allowed at least...the whole Norwegian prison system, intimate...no drugs. Should a prisoner break any of these...whole sentence in a prison like this, he tells...conventional high-security prisons for people who are...people into harsh prison conditions which harm...results, like the prisoners, the guards and indeed...holiday retreat; a prisoner in the bicycle repair...
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Prison in Lockdown for Weapon Search; Prisoners Held in Cells for 48 Hours

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 15, 2011

Subjects:

Prisoners, Prisons

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Lockdown for Weapon Search; Prisoners Held in Cells for 48 Hours...But sources close to the prison said an inmate was hiding...partner and there are armed prison officers all over the place...Guards were circling the prison, searching for something...recent weeks over the safety of prisons across the country. Last...
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Search All Prisoners for Blades Will Now Go Ahead. POA; SPATE OF VIOLENCE AT PRISON

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), March 23, 2010

Subjects:

Prisoners, Prisons, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Search All Prisoners for Blades Will Now Go Ahead...the security of Frankland prison isnt working. After an incident...a safe environment in the prison for inmates and officers...against an officer." The Prison Officers Association say pleas...all of our high-security prisons." Huntley was today back...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: prisons and prisoners

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Prison

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...penitentiaries required the prisoners to maintain absolute silence...unsanitary and demoralizing prison conditions. Reforms included...nations federal and state prison population increased by 134...By 2005 the growth of the prison population appeared to be...were in federal and state prisons, only a 4.6% increase...
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Dartmoor Prison

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

DARTMOOR PRISON English prison, at Princetown...War of 1812 many American prisoners were confined there, and...500 American and French prisoners died in the prison and were...Rhodes, ed., Dartmoor Prison; A Record of 126 Years of Prisoner of War and Convict Life...
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Prisoners of War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...neutral inspection of prison camps, for the exchange of prisoners names, and for correspondence with prisoners. According to the Geneva Convention no prisoner of war could be forced...placing them in inhumane prisons. The national anguish...the last official prisoner of war was declared...not recognized as as prisoners of war by the Bush...
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...criticizing Stalin in letters to a friend. In the Moscow prisons he was for the first time confronted with the tragic fates of political prisoners. Sentenced to eight years in labor camps, he worked as...which he later recovered). After completing (1953) his prison sentence, he was exiled to the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan...
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Abu Ghraib

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ghurayb a boo greb, infamous prison located in the town of Abu...thousands of political and other prisoners, many of whom were tortured...S. forces captured the prison during the 2003 invasion of...Brigade, assumed command of the prison. In Oct., 2003, International...problems there and at other prisons. As early as April and May...

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