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Correctional Institutions

Contributors:: Robert Melvin Carter
Daniel Glaser
Publisher:: Lippincott 1977 (3rd edition)
Subjects:: Correctional Institutions--United States
Corrections--United States

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...recidivism rates of releases from institutions with andwithout Unit Management...of the Federal Bureau of Prisons are to provide a safe, humaneenvironment...beachieved in the Bureau of Prisons through Unit Management...Center Program, seeBureau of Prisons, Differential Treatment...of the social climate of a correctional institution and its units...

Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions

Contributors:: Richard Wortley
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press 2002
Subjects:: Prison Discipline
Prison Violence--Prevention
Prison Psychology
Crime Prevention

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...prisoners. The belief that small prisons areeasier to control is based...harmingothers. In addition, large prisons are thought to be more difficult...apparent preference for smaller prisons, there is an increasingtendency towards larger institutions. In 1990 in the US, 471...1,287 federal and state correctional facilities housed morethan...

No Escape: Prisons, Therapy & Politics

Contributors:: Blanche Hampton
Publisher:: University of New South Wales Press 1994
Subjects:: Criminals--Rehabilitation--Australia
Correctional Psychology--Australia
Imprisonment--Australia--Sociological Aspects
Imprisonment--Australia--Psychological Aspects
Prisons--Australia
Social Problems--Australia

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...disastrous in practice. Ratherthan developing further correctional treatment programs in aninstitutional environment, penal...thereality of the politics of punishment.A reformist correctional service requiring 'more and bettertrained personnel at higher salaries, more programs both in andout of institutions, more money for courts and corrections allalong the line...

Lawful Order: A Case Study of Correctional Crisis and Reform

Contributors:: Leo Carroll
Publisher:: Garland 1998
Subjects:: Prisons--Government Policy--United States
Prisoners--United States--Social Conditions
Prison Administration--United States
Prison Violence--United States
Prisons--Security Measures--United States

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...And guards became correctional officers. Companion...Federal Bureau of Prisons and a native Rhode...of the state's institutions in 1955. Bennett...newly-designated correctional institutions, Thomas J. Gough...eleven years as a correctional officer. For the...would be no need for prisons if the people in...

Living in Prison: A History of the Correctional System with an Insider's View

Contributors:: Stephen Stanko
Wayne Gillespie
Gordon A. Crews
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 2004
Subjects:: Prisons
Imprisonment
Prisons--United States
Prisoners--United States
Criminal Justice, Administration of--United States

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Like the correctional institutions in which they are housed...in state and federal prisons increased by as much...of inmates in state correctional facilities alone increased...explosion in American prisons. Selective incapacitation...

America's Correctional Crisis: Prison Populations and Public Policy

Contributors:: Stephen D. Gottfredson
Sean McConville
Publisher:: Greenwood Press 1987
Subjects:: Prisons--United States--Overcrowding
Prison Administration--United States
Corrections--United States

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...00ADopment of private correctional institutions?HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDThe...private administration of prisons is, of course, of...county, and municipal prisons and jails. ThorstenSellin...the southern U.S. prisons.4 Thecatalogue of...

Prison Life and Human Worth

Contributors:: Paul W. Keve
Publisher:: University of Minnesota Press 1974
Subjects:: Prisons--United States
Correctional Institutions--United States
Parole--United States

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...heaped upon correctional institutions,there is...at women's prisons. Thismay be...tocriticize women's prisons as it reflects...Generally, correctional institutions for women suffer...the men's prisons. In comparison...

Japanese Corrections: Managing Convicted Offenders in an Orderly Society

Contributors:: Elmer H. Johnson
Publisher:: Southern Illinois University Press 1996
Subjects:: Corrections--Japan
Correctional Institutions--Japan
Prisons--Japan
Community-Based Corrections--Japan

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...headquarters, 104 in the prisons, 26 in the juveniletraining...servicetraining after entering the correctional service is enlistedto remedy...on-the-jobtraining at correctional institutions. Five years after reU...00ADing Institute for Correctional Personnel (TICPU...

Encyclopedia of American Prisons

Contributors:: Marilyn D. McShane
Frank P. Williams Iii
Publisher:: Garland 1996
Subjects:: Prisons--United States--History--Encyclopedias
Prison Administration--United States--History--Encyclopedias

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...thirty-five co-correctional institutions operated within...S. Bureau of Prisons. Survey respondents...and jobs. Three institutions reported no joint...define the co-correctional program, becomes...the average, co-correctional institutions offered seven programs...

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Prisons and the American Conscience: A History of U.S. Federal Corrections

Contributors:: Paul W. Keve
Publisher:: Southern Illinois University Press 1995
Subjects:: Prisons--United States--History
Corrections--United States--History

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...two new major institutions -- prisons at Terminal Islandand...for women.The correctional institution that...themclassified as federal correctional institutions. The new urban...jailswere metropolitan correctional centers; several...

prison

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......contractors operate prisons. These private prisons increased from...Some of these institutions proved problematic...reformatories or other correctional institutions. In the face...Among famous prisons in history are......

juvenile delinquency

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......been a tendency to handle cases in public welfare agencies outside the court. Juvenile correctional institutions have been separated from regular prisons since the early 19th cent., and although most are inadequate, some have developed intensive......

convict labor

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......labor was introduced in prisons chiefly as punishment. Such...production of goods used in state institutions. Because of competition with...in many state and federal prisons in the United States and in...are allowed to work outside prisons in private industry during......

Osborne, Thomas Mott

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......commandant of the U.S. naval prison at Portsmouth, N.H. His views are expressed in Society and Prisons (1916, repr. 1972) and Prisons and Common Sense (1924). See biography by R. W. Chamberlain (1935, repr. 1972); study by F......

debt

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......periodically proclaimed jubilee periods when debts over seven years old were forgiven. Imprisonment for debt, which once crowded prisons, was ended in theory in England and the United States by laws enacted in the 19th cent. The laws of bankruptcy are designed......

Gulag

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......under Nikita Khrushchev, and the system was finally abolished by Mikhail Gorbachev.See A. Shifrin, The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union (tr. 1980), A. Applebaum, Gulag: A History (2003) and Gulag Voices (2011......

Howard, John (English prison reformer)

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......90, English prison reformer. He had great influence in improving sanitary conditions and securing humane treatment in prisons throughout Europe. He was responsible (1774) for persuading the House of Commons to enact a set of penal reform acts. See......

Tower of London

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......bishop of Rochester; the exterior was restored by Sir Christopher Wren. Various towers subsequently built were used as prisons; one of them now houses a collection of medieval arms and armor. The crown jewels are displayed in the Waterloo Block, a......

Berlin (city, United States)

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......but the last mill closed in 2006; a logging museum is there. Fabricated metal products are produced, but health care, prisons, and other services are the main employers. Berlin, a winter sports center, has the first ski club organized (1872) in......

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Chino

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......farming (notably dairying) area. Processed foods, plastics, and food and beverage machinery are manufactured in Chino, where the city population nearly tripled from 1970 to 1990. Men's and women's state prisons are located there....