Download or read book Assessing the Impact of Prison Siting on Rural Economic Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the impact of prison siting on rural economic development.
Download or read book Introduction to Corrections written by Richard Tewksbury and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is that book: The one that is authoritative and readable. The one that covers the subject thoroughly, but is always manageable, navigable, and engaging. It pairs sterling authorship with an accessible style. Like the wind at your back, Richard Tewksbury’s Introduction to Corrections motivates you through a wide range of interesting topics without impediment—because clear text needs no box. Accessible and authoritative, Richard Tewksbury’s Introduction to Corrections features: A succinct overview of the American correctional system, by a renowned scholar in the field Thorough coverage of course content The structure and operations of correctional systems The history and politics of corrections The goals of corrections in society today A logical organization, from the role of corrections in controlling crime, to an in-depth look at the most troubling issues in corrections today A clean page design Consistently clear and direct narrative style
Download or read book The Economic and Social Impacts of Prisons on Small Cities written by Jacob E. Avidon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines two correctional facilities in New York State, Fishkill and Downstate, and their impact on the communities in which they are located. The purpose for studying the two prisons is both to evaluate the effectiveness of constructing new prisons in small cities and rural areas to spur economic development, and to examine whether or not newly constructed prisons have the positive economic impacts on local economies that politicians have suggested.
Download or read book Big Prisons Small Towns written by Ryan S. King and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes prison siting in rural counties in New York State since 1982 as a means of promoting economic development.
Download or read book Big House on the Prairie written by John M. Eason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns. In 2007, John M. Eason moved his family to Forrest City, Arkansas, in search of answers to key questions about this trend: Why is America building so many prisons? Why now? And why in rural areas? Eason quickly learned that rural demand for prisons is complicated. Towns like Forrest City choose to build prisons not simply in hopes of landing jobs or economic wellbeing, but also to protect and improve their reputations. For some rural leaders, fostering a prison in their town is a means of achieving order in a rapidly changing world. Taking us into the decision-making meetings and tracking the impact of prisons on economic development, poverty, and race, Eason demonstrates how groups of elite whites and black leaders share power. Situating prisons within dynamic shifts that rural economies are undergoing and showing how racially diverse communities lobby for prison construction, Big House on the Prairie is a remarkable glimpse into the ways a prison economy takes shape and operates.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Community Impact Assessment Study on Prison Siting written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of two parts: a literature review and the results of a public opinion survey on the impact of prison development. The survey was conducted in Nanaimo, Surrey and Victoria, three communities where provincial prisons already exist. Survey results indicate that residents do not see the presence of a correctional facility as having a negative effect on public safety or property values. Residents do not see the presence of the prison as having reduced their quality of life, negatively affected their environment, or the quality of their community. Several residents noted a positive impact on the economy. The literature indicates that prisons in communities have either a neutral impact on quality of life, or have positive impacts. The survey confirms that the B.C. experience is not different from those reported for other North American and Canadian communities. The report concludes that attention needs to be paid to providing community information and participation to successfully address community perceptions and concerns.
Download or read book A Community Impact Assessment Study on Prison Siting a Research Study written by Ekstedt, John and published by Vancouver, B.C. : The Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big House on the Prairie written by John Major Eason and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big House in a Small Town written by Eric J. Williams and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area. This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams' ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons.
Download or read book Prisons Used as Economic Development in Rural Communities written by Darian Edward Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of economic and other effects of prison hosting has been slow in coming and results are mixed. The present study gathered community perceptions and compared Ohio rural communities with prisons to themselves, the state, and their urban counterparts on three select indicators of economic benefits: unemployment, population, and per capita personal income. Qualitative data was collected from key informants for a subset of rural communities with prisons to identify community perceptions regarding prison hosting and its perceived impact on the communities. Themes were identified, analyzed, and presented for discussion. Quantitatively, it was hypothesized that jobs would grow, thereby lowering unemployment in hosting counties. In addition, it was hypothesized that people would follow the jobs and that the jobs would reduce outmigration, thus stabilizing or increasing populations of the hosting counties. Further, it was hypothesized that the prison-hosting jobs would replace income people lost in the dismantled manufacturing and farming industries, thereby increasing per capita personal income in hosting counties. Trend data and statistical analyses painted the typical picture of rural, including lack of population growth and lower per capita personal income. However, rural communities with prisons did experience a significant reduction in unemployment, lowering it from pre to post hosting. No differences were observed in comparisons to the state or their urban counterparts. Conclusions include lessons learned as well as caveats for researchers examining economic benefits of replacement industry such as prisons.
Download or read book Delinking Economic Development and Mass Incarceration written by Insiyah Mohammad Bergeron and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, prisons were considered an economic development strategy particularly in rural communities struggling with the loss of manufacturing jobs. However, many studies have shown that prisons often have weak linkages to the host community, and sometimes have negligible or even negative impacts on rural economies. A combination of factors including changing sentencing laws, inadequate conditions in older facilities, fiscal conservatism, and increasing reliance on community based alternatives to incarceration are now leading to prison closures all around the country. In this changing context, this thesis explores: (i) What are the real and perceived impacts of prison closures on local economies in small rural counties?; and (ii) Where communities are redeveloping old prisons to boost their economies, how are local needs, politics, and project constraints (related to design and finance) shaping the transformation of these sites? By focusing on two cases where former prisons are being reused for community and economic development, this thesis explores how rural communities might transition to new ways of employing people and generating wealth after a local prison closes.
Download or read book Proposed Federal Correctional Institution Berlin written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisons and Community Development written by Shaun Stewart Genter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisons as an Engine of Rural Economic Development written by David Walker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 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 Invisible Punishment written by Meda Chesney-Lind and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.
