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Showing 1 to 20 of 870 for “"Prison"”.
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Prison City: redesigning Pollsmoor Prison
Rehabilitating the Prison System: The prison system in South Africa is a harsh and ineffective system that emphasises the need to punish rather than rehabilitate and reintegrate the incarcerated back into society. Although a lot of prisons in South Africa host a number of workshops and activities …
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Prison Blockbusters: Relationships Between Prison Cinema and Student Perceptions
… college students' perceptions, as they relate to prison cinema. It also discussed and analyzed reoccurring themes in prison cinema that perpetuates the prison culture in the United States. Specifically, this research addressed the following research question: How is exposure to prison cinema …
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Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid
… of South African autobiographical accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these …
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A magic prison
When Megan’s aged and addled father goes missing in Lahaina, Maui, where he has been living most of his adult life, she must decide whether and how she should help to find him. As a child, she knew him only through their two weeks together each December; as a young adult, she had to deal with the …
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Prison Space, Social Control and Relationships in a Post-Soviet Women’s Prison
… particular its effect on penality and women’s imprisonment. This rupture has been conceptualized as a ‘clash of the titans’, which is the ongoing struggle between a Soviet legacy that refuses to die and an increasingly dominant neoliberal regime. While the breakdown of Soviet hegemonic power …
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Spiritual Transformation in Prison
… continue to rise. Nearly every United States prison offers religious programs, mostly through volunteer work, and studies suggest that these programs are temporarily effective. While such programs have not been empirically proven to prevent recidivism in the long term, spirituality can help …
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Prison system of Missouri
Missouri has no prison system in any strict use of the term. The state has a number of relatively unrelated institutions dealing with certain phases of the problem of crime. These institutions the present paper undertakes to discuss, pointing out their excellencies and their deficiencies, and …
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Adapting to Prison Life
… longitudinally how young offenders cope with prison life, in particular the relationship between early coping styles and later levels of psychological health' and homesickness. The research was conducted in two parts. The first was a preliminary study to modify a homesickness questionnaire …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership.
… activities, are institutionalized in the 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 …
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… in the present discussion of Dickens' use of prison imagery in Little Dorrit.</p> <p>The fact that Lionel Trilling ranks Little Dorrit among the three great novels of Dickens' great last period and yet pronounces it relegated to the background of public consciousness signifies what little …
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Old Capital Prison, 1861-1865
… the development, use and demise of Old Capitol Prison. Built to serve the legislative arm of the Republic, Old Capitol stood at the corner of First and A Streets. From the time the federal government assumed control of the building in 1861, it served as a prison for several classes of persons …
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An urban prison rehabilitation center
The making of a prison presents a unique architectural situation－a building or massing of buildings which must accommodate and enforce a prescribed routine, incorporating most of the facets of human existence, while aspiring to correct deviant behavior within a hostile population. The physical …
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
… yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations …
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