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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Prison Reform"”.
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Prison reform in Massachusetts : a study of the politics of institutional change.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… main argument of this thesis is that The Women's Prison Reform Movement, from 1865-1900, was constructed around both gendered and racial ideologies that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this served to …
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Organizing for Freedom: The Angola Special Civics Project, 1987-1992
<p> <p>During the 1980s and 1990s, the US prison system was expanding at an unprecedented rate. This research charts how prisoners at the nation’s largest maximum-security prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as Angola, founded the Angola Special Civics Project to …
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An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre
… patterns and help them cope with the pains of imprisonment. A qualitative research design allowed for rich accounts of the participants' yoga experience. The interviews were conducted with a panel of nine female offenders who participated in the yoga programme. While the design of the study makes …
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A Social Psychological Investigation of Community Sentiment Toward COVID-19 Mitigation Policies in the Justice System
… mitigation policies such as the early release of prisoners, the pretrial release of defendants, the suspension of fines and fees, and the prioritization of prisoner vaccination. Using a student sample (study 1) and a demographically-representative U.S. community sample (study 2), this dissertation …
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Media Framings of Pussy Riot
… known activists leading the charge for prison reform in Russia and other types of social reform.
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Prodigal daughters: Imprisoned women, reform, and the femine ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877
In Prodigal Daughters: Imprisoned Women, Reform, and the Feminine Ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877, I examine the image(s) of imprisoned women, attempts to reform them, movements for prison reform, and the relationship between England and Ireland. After the 1853 Penal Servitude Acts, convict …
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"Frontline in Mental Healthcare": A Discourse Analytic Clinical Ethnography of Crisis Intervention Team Trainings for Corrections
… system operates a discourse of <em>corrections-reform</em>. This responds to prisoner trauma and resistance by converting them into reforms that strengthen prisons and the larger carceral system while discounting issues of race and class that might undermine institutional legitimacy. The recent …
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Potential and limits of abolitionist restorative justice in the UK
… governmental as well as charity organisations (Prison Reform Trust, Howard League for Penal Reform), was also examined. Fieldwork was carried out between June 2018 and January 2019. Primary research included undertaking, recording and transcribing 41 interviews with practitioners of Restorative …
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HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive
… and superintendents narrating the future of prison reform. Drawing primarily from National Prison Association Conference archives between the years 1874 and 1895, these documents saturate the work with a will resistant but compelled towards subjugation by the state — as it appears within the …
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RE-Design / RE-Habilitate
During the last decade, criminal justice and prison reform in the United States has been at the core of many social organizations, rallies and protests throughout the country. While most concerns aim for increased policing, legislative change and the reduction of incarceration rates altogether, the …
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Behind the Door: A Study of Cell-Sharing, Wellbeing and Coping in Prison
Many individuals in prison experience sharing a cell with another prisoner (Prison Reform Trust, 2018a). Yet little is known about how cell-sharing can affect wellbeing during imprisonment or influence the use of coping styles. Using a mixed-methods approach consisting of a survey of 569 adult men …
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Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008)
… the nearly 6 million people monitored by the prison and immigration enforcement complex in the US, a little over 4 million, or 70%, are under community supervision. If we narrow in on the nearly 350,000 people being monitored by the immigration system, the figure goes up to 93%. Yet, most …
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Voices from Inside: The Role of Soft Civil Oversight in Regulating Prisons in Japan and the Australian Capital Territory
… respond to public demands for scrutiny of prisons by establishing civilian monitoring bodies. This regulatory trend began after World War II, when European human rights advocates argued that civil oversight prevents abuses and promotes prison reform. Their sincere belief and the mechanism's …
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Voices from Inside: The Role of Soft Civil Oversight in Regulating Prisons in Japan and the Australian Capital Territory
… respond to public demands for scrutiny of prisons by establishing civilian monitoring bodies. This regulatory trend began after World War II, when European human rights advocates argued that civil oversight prevents abuses and promotes prison reform. Their sincere belief and the mechanism's …
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Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law and Legal Reform
… the experiences and perspectives of men imprisoned in the segregation unit at HMP Whitemoor in 2019, specifically with a view to understanding how the law functioned in this unit. HMP Whitemoor opened in 1992 and is one of eight prisons in the long-term high security estate (‘LTHSE’) in …
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SISYPHUS GETS TO THE TOP (Breaking the Cycle of DC Prison)
… of confinement and the adverse impacts of prison architecture on human behavior. In a country with one of the highest incarceration rates, the United States suffers from a cycle of recidivism. Facilities that suppress self-growth and rehabilitation contribute to a never-ending feedback loop …
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Striving for security: State responses to violence under the FMLN government in El Salvador 2009-2014
… set out in the literature about Security Sector Reform and statebuilding assumes that it is possible to provide security to all citizens of a state by building democratic state security institutions. However, this is only possible if the state is the predominant force of controlling violence. …
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Carceral democracy: prisons, race, and the punitive turn in Wisconsin, 1940-1971
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Rights, responsibilities and reform: a study of French justice (1990-2016)
… portfolio of eleven publications concern the reforms to French justice at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. The portfolio is accompanied by a supporting statement explaining the genesis and chronology of the portfolio, its originality and the nature of the …