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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Jails"”.
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Forgotten In Local Jails: A Carceral System Created To Fail Women.
… reasons to be discussed, it is likely that local jails are even less equipped to address women’s needs. We used data from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 14 women housed in a local urban jail to explore perceptions of jail and reentry prospects. The overriding feeling was that the jail …
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Organizational Environment, Structure, and Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of County Jails
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The Carceral Body Multiple: Intake in the New York City jails
… characterizes the data infrastructures of the jails as socio-technical objects, practices, and architectures that are multiple and complex. It is through this lens that managerialism, algorithms, and knowledge production are characterized. Together, these facets provide insight into the making …
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Locked Up: Parallel Correctional Officer, Deputy, and Inmate Decision-Making Experiences in County Jails
… 2014 pilot study at three California county jails found correctional officers and inmates faced similar challenges related to decision-making as a result of their interaction with the criminal justice system.</p> <p>The current study explores a) the decision-making experiences of inmates who …
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What Do Our Phones Tell Us About Jails, Prisons, and Incarceration? A Social Media Content Analysis
… Prior research regarding life within jails and prisons is often restricted to parameters set forth by correctional institutions, which creates limitations to the scope of correctional research. This study attempts to bypass historical barriers in past research by unobtrusively …
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Criminal Justice and Public Health: A Need for Cross-System Collaboration Between Jails and Medicaid to Reduce Recidivism
… Center, 16.9% of the adults in a sample of local jails had a serious mental illness - three to six times the rate of the general population. If these rates were applied to the 13 million jail admissions reported in 2007, the study findings suggest that more than two million bookings of a person …
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The Experiences of Women Reintegrating After Prison: An Explorative Qualitative Study on Women Released from Prisons and Jails in Canada
Women are among the fastest growing prison populations in Canada, often with adverse backgrounds, complex life circumstances, and unique criminogenic needs. However, limited criminological and sociological inquiry focusses on the experiences of criminalized and formerly incarcerated women in …
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Identification of Severe Mental Illness: Analysis and Variation of Intake Procedures At the Greene County Jail
… mandate screening for mental illness in jails, few procedures exist that can be completed in the limited time spans under which jails function. The Referral Decision Scale was compared with the current booking procedure at the Greene County Jail using crosstabulations. Although the RDS …
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An Autoethnography of a Social Justice-Minded Teacher in Corrections
… legal requirement for education includes county jails, the transitory facilities that house inmates while they await court or transfer to prison. The jail educational system is volatile, making it difficult to engage students when there are constant interruptions, unexpected incidents, lockdowns, …
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Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets
… state prison inmates into local county jails. On the other hand, <em>Prop 47</em> reduced penalties for non-serious property crimes, thereby providing a second chance for offenders who committed specific non-violent crimes, while lowering the burden on county jails by shifting offenders …
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… the presence of enslaved prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the close relationship between governmental authority and the discipline of black people, a …
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The Prison-to-School Pipeline & the Role of Private Higher Education in California
… the formerly incarcerated return to prisons or jails, it is necessary to determine which programs reduce recidivism and create new opportunities for the formerly incarcerated. As the research has shown that educational opportunities for the currently and formerly incarcerated are successful at …
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Catch Chain
… treatment of inmates and societal rejection in jails by embarking upon a cross-country road trip. However, the same issues the officer initially wrestled with begin cropping up in different cities, on various highways and in a multitude of states. The excitement and adventure of the open road …
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Examining specialized drug courts: An evaluation of the Las Vegas Drug Court treatment program
Developed in response to overcrowded jails and backlogged court dockets, drug courts use comprehensive treatment and graduated sanctions to deal with drug offenders. This study evaluates the Las Vegas Drug Court in terms of its effectiveness in reducing recidivism by comparing data for drug court …
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Nowhere To Go: The Trend To Criminalize The Nation's Homeless
… as law enforcement destroys their property and jails them for activity essential for human existence as those activities are criminalized. With the negative perception held by much of the criminal justice system, no homeless person can receive impartial treatment at the hands of the criminal …
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American Ignominy: The Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
Prisons and jails have become the de facto psychiatric hospitals of the twenty-first century. In the wake of deinstitutionalization, as mental healthcare transitioned to a community-based model, many patients with mental illness found themselves incarcerated rather than hospitalized. Strict drug …
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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms
Working with four Washington State county jails to administer surveys to currently incarcerated inmates, we investigated locus of control and beliefs in the likelihood of continued legal involvement as possible antecedents to criminal recidivism. The surveys examined whether there was any …
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Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery
… by enslavers, in conjunction with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from …
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Weston State Hospital
… mentally ill now among the homeless or held in jails and prisons.
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