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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Incarcerated people"”.
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Recidivism among Previously Incarcerated People Enrolled in Riverside County Whole Person Care
… to policy shift towards reducing the number of incarcerated people; however, many people released from incarceration will be rearrested due to re-entry challenges. Several re-entry programs, such as the Whole Person Care pilot, have been developed to address these challenges and ensure that …
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Kent Kiehl’s Search for the Criminal Brain America’s self-proclaimed “psychopath whisperer” says he can predict criminality in incarcerated people. Is the legal system buying it?
… to have conducted promising brain research on incarcerated people that could uncover biological markers of criminal behavior, or even predict future criminality. Yet methodological and ethical questions have been raised about his research. Is it scientifically valid to have a brain-based view …
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Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
… nearly twenty percent of the nation’s federally incarcerated people in seven penitentiaries around the city, prisons undoubtedly influence the economic, political, and social life of Kingston. While Kingston’s identity as a prison town is touted by the local municipality as beneficial for the …
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Access to Doula and Midwifery Support for Washington State’s Incarcerated Population: A Qualitative Policy Assessment
… and Midwifery Support for Washington State’s Incarcerated Population: A Qualitative Policy Assessment Background: This thesis assesses perceptions of key stakeholders regarding Washington State RCW 72.09.588 and its impact on the birth support choices and reproductive health of pregnant people …
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Against social death: rhetorical resilience at the intersection of higher education and the prison
… qualitative study of the experiences of formerly incarcerated people who participated in college programming in prison or upon their release. Throughout, I argue that incarcerated people engage in everyday rhetorical practice in their resistance to social death. Specifically, I chronicle how the …
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Fireline, divided : labor representation of unionized and incarcerated firefighters in California's wildlands
… up to 40 percent of the state's firefighters are incarcerated people working in a prison labor program called the Conservation Camp Program at small, rural prisons known as "fire camps." There are 43 fire camps throughout the state that house up to 4,500 incarcerated people and are largely …
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Promoting prosocial behaviors through restorative justice principles : emerging patterns in rewarded behavior
… that aims to provide the needed tools for incarcerated people to successfully reintegrate into society. This study seeks to examine how prosocial values are integrated into TCKC’s foundational principles of restorative justice and elements of dignity. Utilizing a mixed methods approach with …
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Educación en contextos de encierro: las representaciones sociales educativas y sus efectos para una futura inclusión social. El caso de la población penal en la provincia de Mendoza
… to the stigmatization that society attaches to incarcerated people.
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Conquering barriers: how formerly incarcerated Black men define and achieve success in higher education
… are in place to limit the success of formerly incarcerated Black students and challenges anti-deficit perspectives that fault those affected by oppressive systems rather than the systems themselves. This qualitative study used open-ended semi-structured interviews to learn how formerly …
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'Burning Issues': Incarcerated Firefighting Programs in the U.S.
There are at least 15 states in the U.S. that use incarcerated people to fight wildland fires: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. This thesis outlines the broad adoption and …
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To cities, with nothing : prisoner resettlement in Newark, NJ
… outcomes of recently released, formerly incarcerated people. The Newark Prisoner Reentry Initiative (NPRI) is a unique case where the city directly managed six resettlement providers. The city also pledged to use its influence to support the goals of NPRI by encouraging employers to hire …
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Gestão prisional: mapeamento do modelo de cogestão prisional na Bahia
… in the state's prison units. The conditions that incarcerated people go through have a large part of their problems arising from the management of the system, whether public or managed in a shared way with the private sector. In Bahia, as in the reality of most federative units, the punitive power …
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The Effectiveness of MBSR on the Occupational Stress of Correctional Officers
… the last 30 years the increase in the number of incarcerated people, the lack of retention among correctional officers, and the proliferation of inmates with complex mental health issues and gang affiliations have all created a much more complex and dangerous work environment. Combine this with …
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The Federal Workforce Development Program: An Analysis of Probationers and Characteristics Associated with and Predictive of Successful Reentry
… has been largely overlooked. The majority of incarcerated people will return to the community setting. In fact, millions of recently released offenders are on some form of community based supervision. Today, recidivism is a problem that plagues prisoner reentry. In order to address the …
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La cárcel y el control del delito en Navarra entre el Antiguo Régimen y el Estado liberal
… complaints and even the collective protests of incarcerated people.
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Care, Coloniality, and Indigeneity in Saskatchewan’s Carceral-Corrections Industry
This dissertation examines the way people care for one another within the context of incarceration, specifically in Saskatchewan, where the overwhelming majority of prisoners in provincial correctional facilities are Indigenous and staff are predominantly white, and where there is an assemblage of …
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Opportunities and Limitations of Earth Observation Technology for Environmental Justice Advocacy: A Case Study of Toxic Prisons in the U.S.
People of color and other socio-economically marginalized groups in the United States experience a disproportionate burden of environmental challenges such as air pollution and extreme heat; the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement aims to combat these burdens and promote collective well being. …
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Suicide in South Australia: specific features, trends and reasons for disparities in numbers
… preponderated among Aboriginal as well as incarcerated people in South Australia. Additionally, overall drug-related deaths, asphyxial deaths using helium and female hangings, all showed increases compared to previous years. This study has demonstrated that despite a modest decline in the …
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Punishment, Injustice, and Modernity: Incarceration in Argentine Cinema
… studies to show how contemporary films made by incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and non-incarcerated people alike build on but defamiliarise iconographies of human rights associated with the last dictatorship. Focusing on the gendered, classed, and racialised experiences of contemporary …
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Life at Heart Mountain : A Dynamic Network Model of a Japanese American Community during World War II
… attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States incarcerated (interned) 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two thirds of whom were US citizens. Half of the incarcerated people returned to the West Coast, while the rest were dispersed across the country through the government’s resettlement …
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