Download or read book An Analysis of Inmates in a Local Jail written by Donald W. Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners written by Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country's disadvantaged populations—racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis—are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in today's correctional settings. Given these issues, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections commissioned the Institute of Medicine to review the ethical considerations regarding research involving prisoners. The resulting analysis contained in this book, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners, emphasizes five broad actions to provide prisoners involved in research with critically important protections: • expand the definition of "prisoner"; • ensure universally and consistently applied standards of protection; • shift from a category-based to a risk-benefit approach to research review; • update the ethical framework to include collaborative responsibility; and • enhance systematic oversight of research involving prisoners.
Download or read book Health and Incarceration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.
Download or read book Our Crowded Jails written by Norma Mancini and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisoners Deaths in Local Jails written by Lisa Nealy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1987, there have been 49 inmate deaths in jails and prisons across the state of Mississippi. No study has been produced or written to explicate why such deaths have occurred in Mississippi's jails. Most of the deaths have been labeled suicide, but further research by the author has led to other explanations that these deaths were not all suicide. Many of the victims were African American, male, young and with no previous history of arrests. Within 24 hours of being incarcerated, many of these pre-trial detainees were found hanged in their jail cells with larynx and muscles missing, tongue cut out and body covered with bruises.
Download or read book The History and Politics of Private Prisons written by Martin P. Sellers and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of The History and Politics of Private Prisons in America is to examine the history of the movement, establish how politics affects it, and provide practitioners, politicians, academics, and students with alternative thinking about the value of privatizing prison management. In the first two chapters, author Martin P. Sellers provides a brief history of incarceration and surveys the current privatization movement in the United States, identifying its roots in economics, politics, and administration. Chapter 3 identifies the many political, economic, social, and administrative arguments against privatization and attempts to explain how these arguments developed. In chapter 4, Sellers analyzes three private prisons, comparing them to three public prisons, to determine which group is more efficient at providing prison services, particularly health and education services.
Download or read book A Study in County Jails in California written by California. State Board of Charities and Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passing of the County Jail written by Stuart Alfred Queen and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.
Download or read book The Gateway to Mass Incarceration written by Sarah R. Walton and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What factors determine differential levels of punishment across communities? This question has been addressed by sociologists, policy scholars, and other social scientists for decades, as mass incarceration has become one of the defining social problems of the 20th and 21st centuries. Social scientists have largely focused upon the institution of the prison and the state and federal levels of government as the central units of analysis in studying punishment as a social institution. Racial/ethnic threat, economic distress, and a declining government emphasis on social welfare policy are the central theoretical concepts in this literature. In my dissertation, I build upon recent research on mass incarceration that highlights the importance of space and county-level analysis in understanding punishment and imprisonment. I take the jail as my unit of analysis, a local institution of punishment that has been neglected in the larger study of mass incarceration. I examine the extent to which theories of punishment, demonstrated to explain imprisonment rates and prison privatization, do or do not explain jail incarceration and privatization. In short, my dissertation represents a place-based approach to the study of punishment that elevates local institutions and the role they play in creating punitive county-level environments. First, I examine the relationship between jail incarceration rates and county government social service provision and capacity, as well as local political conditions in a sample of approximately 1,300 U.S. counties. I synthesize the sociology of punishment with studies of local governments to examine ways in which county governments balance their punitive and social welfare functions. I find that counties with lower rates of social service provision and with higher capacity governments have higher jail incarceration rates. Additionally, I find that counties with more conservative political climates have higher incarceration rates. After accounting for county government service provision, capacity, and county-level political context, I do not find a significant rural-urban difference in jail incarceration rates. Second, I examine the relationship between county government capacity, county political and sociodemographic factors and jail privatization. Studies of correctional privatization tend to focus upon prison privatization and state-level variables, particularly economic, political, and demographic factors. I examine the extent to which these determinants explain jail privatization at the county-level, using a sample of approximately 1,300 U.S. counties and a measure of jail privatization drawn from a primary dataset. I find that county government economic characteristics are important for jail privatization, particularly fiscal independence and correctional expenditures. I also find that more conservative and rural counties are significantly more likely to privatize jail services. Third, I examine the extent to which the punitive and economic development functions of jails are associated with institutional characteristics of counties, namely local government social expenditures and local labor markets, across a sample of approximately 2,300 U.S. counties. I synthesize insights from two literatures: the sociology of punishment and studies of rural prison construction. I find that counties with higher unemployment, lower educational spending, and higher employment in vulnerable/declining industries have higher pre-trial jail populations. However, I do not find a relationship between jail contracting and the variables commonly associated with prison construction. However, I do find that both dependent variables are significantly spatially clustered, suggesting the existence of concentrated, county-level geographies of punitiveness and carceral entrepreneurship. As a whole, these findings demonstrate the need to consider place-based, county-level institutional and sociodemographic conditions when studying punishment. This research also indicates the importance of spatial factors when studying incarceration. While mass incarceration is a massive social system with national-level impacts, the building blocks of this system and its inequalities are rooted in individual communities. Through a better understanding of how local governments, local labor markets, and spatial context are associated with jail incarceration, inmate contracting, and privatization, researchers can develop concrete strategies to address the social conditions that contribute to punishment vulnerability in individual communities.
Download or read book Arizona Jails written by Arizona. State Justice Planning Agency. Statistical Analysis Center and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Methods in New York State a Contribution to the Study of the Theory and Practice of Correctional Institutions in New York State written by Philip Klein and published by New York : Columbia university. This book was released on 1920 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Jails written by Billy L. Wayson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education written by Lois M. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates' risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.
Download or read book A Study of California County Jails written by California. Board of Corrections and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The County Prison of Allegheny County written by Leon Stern and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The County Jails of California written by California. Special Study Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
