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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership.
… state prison in Johnson County, Tennessee. These inmates, housed in the confines of a few concrete buildings, represent a society that is dissimilar from the free-world society.</p> <p>The purpose of this phenomenological study was to determine the characteristics of an inmate leader. Research …
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Forgiveness, Freedom and the Inmate Issue
<p>Forgiveness Freedom and the Inmate Issue:</p> <p>It is no secret that the United States has a mass incarceration problem. The war on drugs, traffic violations, and the Three Strikes Law, are just pieces of the systems being used to repeatedly place people behind bars. What we are facing now as a …
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The Measurement of Inmate Change During Imprisonment
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An Analysis of Pregnant Inmate Shackling Laws and Policies
Pregnant inmates pose unique challenges to jail and prison administrations. Many states still require the shackling of pregnant inmates throughout the pregnancy and during labor, delivery, and recovery. Proponents of these laws and policies argue that the legislation is necessary to protect …
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Overcrowding and its effects on inmate violent behavior in priSon
… looks at the effects this overcrowding has on inmate violent behavior. Prison administrators are charged with providing a safe and secure atmosphere for inmates to serve the time that they are sentenced to by the states and federal governments. If this overcrowding is creating violence within …
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Women in prison: Do visits from children influence inmate behavior?
… and disciplinary infractions was gathered from inmate files and visitation records at the facility. Logistic regression was used to assess the impact of child visitation on inmate behavior. The results indicate that few women receive visits from their children while in prison, and visitation was …
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Comparisons of inmate offense severity ratings and attitudes toward rehabilitation
… attitudes and rehabilitative potential of female inmates in a California state women's prison.
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Comparisons of inmate offense severity ratings and attitudes toward rehabilitation
… attitudes and rehabilitative potential of female inmates in a California state women's prison.
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Examining the Effects of Religiosity and Religious Environments On Inmate Misconduct
<p>The effect of religion and religiosity on inmate misconduct has received limited scholarly attention, and among those existing studies that have examined this issue, the evidence is mixed. Research has demonstrated that religion and religiosity have a substantial association with various forms …
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Locked Up: Parallel Correctional Officer, Deputy, and Inmate Decision-Making Experiences in County Jails
… of the influence of decision-making processes on inmates and correctional officers and deputies in the California criminal justice system. An exploratory 2014 pilot study at three California county jails found correctional officers and inmates faced similar challenges related to decision-making as …
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Predicting Inmate Economic Conflict In Female Housing Units: Individual Factors Versus Social Climate Factors
… very little research has investigated inmate economic conflict. This study describes the context of inmate economic conflict and examines the factors that may account for the development of this conflict in female housing facilities. The secondary data analysis study is based on …
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Assessing Inmate Attachment Through the Bird's Nest Drawing: Art Therapy in a Correctional Setting
… a pre-experimental single group design with 15 inmates at San Quentin State Prison. The hypothesis of this research was that individuals who are incarcerated in a minimum security unit at a state prison will have low attachment levels as assessed through the Draw-A-Bird’s-Nest (BND) drawing …
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State Super-Maximum Security Policies: An Examination of Admission Characteristics, Classification Reviews, Mental Health Amenities, and Inmate Privileges
… attempting to control the “worst of the worst” inmates. Federal courts and researchers have examined the detrimental effects supermax isolation has on inmates’ mental health. This analysis examines forty-two state supermax policies to determine how states admit inmates to supermax custody, the …
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Using the Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities to Compare Female and Male Inmate Characteristics.
… the differences between female and male prison inmates using the Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1997. Variables examined included current offense, criminal history, drug use history, victimization history, program participation in the institution, disciplinary …
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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Effects of Women Correctional Officers on Prison VIolence
… suggests that staff culture might influence inmate behavior. Correctional officers have the most interaction with inmates, and a crucial aspect of achieving staff and institutional legitimacy involves treating inmates in a procedurally just fashion. Literature suggests that procedural justice …
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Men and Mustangs: From Communicative Messages Within the Wild Horse Inmate Program to a Communicative Theory of Learning How to Teach
… the communicative messages within the Wild Horse Inmate Program. This dissertation developed the communicative theory of learning how to teach, a grounded theory based on the communicative messages of the Department of Corrections' officers and Bureau of Land Manager employees who work with …
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The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
… of the prison yard as I experienced them as inmate #K73299 from 1997 to 2005. Diverging from Foucauldian theories of disciplinarity, I argue that under neoliberalism, the primary punishments that any inmate is subjected to within the carceral thresher are in excess of what they were sentenced …
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Place Management in a Correctional Setting
… whether or not the number of incidents of inmate misconduct and disorder can be reduced thereby. Using a mixed-method design, this study measured the impact place management interventions implemented in a county jail had on a number of outcome measures, including the number of written, …
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