Download or read book Islands of Incarceration written by Peggy Carter and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banishment and exile were the lot of British convicts. With the loss of the American colonies in the American War of Independence in 1776, the British Government established penal settlements at Sydney Cove and at Norfolk Island in 1788. The concept of exile to a remote island, at the limits of the known and mapped world, had much appeal to sentencing and colonial authorities; and also to the Governors of the Australian convict settlements at Sydney and Hobart. France possessed its legendary Chateu d’if and its very real Devil’s Island. Australia has its Norfolk Island, the Moreton Bay Settlement and its Macquarie Harbour, the latter being “the most wretched outpost in the Empire, hated by its convicts, military and civilian settlers alike”. The Islands of Incarceration described in this book document the challenging issues of prison reform, a subject as vital today as in the convict era of the past.
Download or read book Islands of Incarceration written by John Pearn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banishment and exile were the lot of British convicts. With the loss of the American colonies in the American War of Independence in 1776, the British Government established penal settlements at Sydney Cove and at Norfolk Island in 1788. The concept of exile to a remote island, at the limits of the known and mapped world, had much appeal to sentencing and colonial authorities; and also to the Governors of the Australian convict settlements at Sydney and Hobart. Australia has its Norfolk Island, the Moreton Bay Settlement and its Macquarie Harbour, the latter being "the most wretched outpost in the Empire, hated by its convicts, military and civilian settlers alike". The Islands of Incarceration described in this book document the challenging issues of prison reform, a subject as vital today as in the convict era of the past.
Download or read book Life and Death in Rikers Island written by Homer Venters and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated.
Download or read book Islands of Incarceration written by Kate McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands of incarceration written by Kate McMillan (1974-, artist) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The McNeil Century written by Paul W. Keve and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of a unique institution and its place among the people of Puget Sound"--Cover.
Download or read book Islands of Incarceration written by John Pearn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copiously illustrated history of seven islands, Sarah, Norfolk, Rottnest, Melville, Stradbroke, Cockatoo and Peel which were used as penal settlements or quarantine stations. Discusses topics such as the conditions endured by the convicts and those in charge of them. Includes references and an index. The authors are historians with a special interest in the origins of contemporary Australian health care.
Download or read book Inside Private Prisons written by Lauren-Brooke Eisen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states and federal corrections. Private prisons are criticized for making money off mass incarceration—to the tune of $5 billion in annual revenue. Based on Lauren-Brooke Eisen’s work as a prosecutor, journalist, and attorney at policy think tanks, Inside Private Prisons blends investigative reportage and quantitative and historical research to analyze privatized corrections in America. From divestment campaigns to boardrooms to private immigration-detention centers across the Southwest, Eisen examines private prisons through the eyes of inmates, their families, correctional staff, policymakers, activists, Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, undocumented immigrants, and the executives of America’s largest private prison corporations. Private prisons have become ground zero in the anti-mass-incarceration movement. Universities have divested from these companies, political candidates hesitate to accept their campaign donations, and the Department of Justice tried to phase out its contracts with them. On the other side, impoverished rural towns often try to lure the for-profit prison industry to build facilities and create new jobs. Neither an endorsement or a demonization, Inside Private Prisons details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry, from mandatory bed occupancy to vested interests in mass incarceration. If private prisons are here to stay, how can we fix them? This book is a blueprint for policymakers to reform practices and for concerned citizens to understand our changing carceral landscape.
Download or read book Prisons and Crime in Latin America written by Marcelo Bergman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than reducing criminality, prisons in Latin America drive crime by creating the conditions for its growth.
Download or read book Escape from Treasure Island written by William Morris and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of a young marine who escaped from a level 5 military prison on an island called Treasure Island. In the military, he graduated number one in his class; his future seemed bright. After his first love left him, his life spiraled out of control into drugs and crime. It’s a true story of one unbelievable event after another. It will keep you wondering what’s next and will give you hope if you’ve lost it.
Download or read book A Kids Book about Incarceration written by Ethan Thrower and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maconochie s Gentlemen written by Norval Morris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one of the most brutal convict settlements in history into a controlled, stable, and productive environment that achieved such success that upon release his prisoners came to be called "Maconochie's Gentlemen". Here Norval Morris, one of our most renowned criminologists, offers a highly inventive and engaging account of this early pioneer in penal reform, enhancing Maconochie's life story with a trenchant policy twist. Maconochie's life and efforts on Norfolk Island, Morris shows, provide a model with profound relevance to the running of correctional institutions today. Using a unique combination of fictionalized history and critical commentary, Morris gives this work a powerful policy impact lacking in most standard academic accounts. In an era of "mass incarceration" that rivals that of the settlement of Australia, Morris injects the question of humane treatment back into the debate over prison reform. Maconochie and his "Marks system" played an influential role in the development of prisons; but for the last thirty years prison reform has been dominated by punitive and retributive sentiments, the conventional wisdom holding that we need 'supermax' prisons to control the 'worst of the worst' in solitary and harsh conditions. Norval Morris argues to the contrary, holding up the example of Alexander Maconochie as a clear-cut alternative to the "living hell" of prison systems today.
Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Download or read book Incarceration Nations written by Baz Dreisinger and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baz Dreisinger travels behind bars in nine countries to rethink the state of justice in a global context Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking of one of America’s most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex. From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present, and future of justice.
Download or read book Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid written by Fran Lisa Buntman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The Deviant Prison written by Ashley T. Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.
Download or read book AUSTRALIA Prison Islands written by Keith Allan Noble and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation, 21 islands are identified as being connected at some time(s), and in some way(s) with the incarceration (control) of convicts/detainees/people/prisoners/etc. To give order to this work, the prison islands have been divided into three groups: original; transitional; and, situational. Note these groups are not clearly discrete chronologically, there is overlap. Also note that although transportation to Australia ended in 1868, original places of imprisonment where convicts were kept - not all were on islands - remained gaols. Inmates were not released. Their imprisonment continued. For some it continued, using that infamous phrase associated with the convict era, for the term of their natural lives. Their torture went on and on until they dropped, then their abused bodies were dumped into crude graves. The second group identified as transitional covers the islands where prisons were established after original places of incarceration were closed, or were set up to imprison Indigenes who the genocidal White invaders were intent on killing with poisons like arsenic and strychnine, with bullets, and the dead-drop noose. Prison islands identified as situational were established to keep people deemed undesirable from remaining on or reaching the mainland. All were established in the 20th century. The descriptor situational is used as any or even all could again become incarceral places depending on contemporary political circumstances.
