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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Prisoner"”.
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Prisoner Release as Conflict Management
Asymmetric prisoner release initiatives (APRI), such as Israel's trade of 1027 security prisoners for one soldier, differ in kind from diplomatic POW exchanges and remain both undertheorized and unexamined. Most explanations tend toward the psychological or sociological. My data-driven plausibility …
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The state of prisoner dietary health and the impact of dietary interventions on prisoner health, wellbeing and behaviour
Prisoners experience a higher burden of health issues compared to the general population. Diets are compromised, and improvements could lead to better health outcomes. Vitamin D deficiency is global, and evidence suggests it improves health beyond its primary role in bone health. As a vitamin …
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To cities, with nothing : prisoner resettlement in Newark, NJ
… 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 NPRI participants. I use …
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The artist as prisoner in the fiction of Bernard Malamud
… itself in his artists, who may be understood as "prisoners" dramatizing the artistic process as Malamud views it.Malamud's artists' struggle to balance art and life is expressed through the idea of imprisonment. When overemphasizing art, the artist is isolated, "imprisoned" in his or her work. …
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Voices Behind Bars: Correctional Education from the Perspective of the Prisoner Student
… of education/training, the perspective of the prisoner student is key to the field of correctional education. The voice of the prisoner student, however, is absent from the literature on prisoner education. This qualitative study examined the thoughts, feelings, experiences, and plans/goals of …
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Ex-prisoner leadership and legitimacy: community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland
… Ireland as an example, this thesis explores ex-prisoner led initiatives in the field of restorative justice, examining how ex-prisoner leadership impacts the micro-dynamics of restorative processes and the mechanisms involved in wider societal peacebuilding. To do this, the thesis analyses the …
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The Michigan prisoner reentry initiative: An examination of a statewide reentry program
<p>The concept of prisoner reentry has only recently sparked a significant interest in the field of criminology and criminal justice; however, it is blatantly apparent that attention to the subject is not only needed but necessary. Each day men and women are sentenced to serve terms in prison …
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Knowing the Prisoner and Knowing Oneself: the Bases for the Convict-Counselor Relationship
One of the difficult challenges to the helping professions is the high rate of crime and recidivism. Can prison counselors meet this challenge by establishing good relationships with their clients? An investigation of primary and secondary source material illuminated this question. A counselor who …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… thinking, and literary production of actual prisoner abuse survivors. This dissertation treats novelists James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Ernest Gaines as the contemporary prison's literary intermediaries, as writers whose fictional narratives of jailhouse beatings, rape and …
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
<p>The history of women is inseparable from the rest of the human experience. It is, therefore, only to be expected that their role in pre-Petrine Russia was the result of events and forces which originated in and acted upon the whole society. Between the decline of the Kievan Rus unity and the …
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Out of the cell : exploring the framing of prisoner reentry in Illinois corrections policy
… from 315,974 to 1,494,216. As a result, 650,000 prisoners are released back into society each year, placing additional stress on already distressed communities. The ability of released prisoners, or ex-offenders, to successfully reintegrate into society depends to a large degree on the …
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Prisoner reentry and reintegration : perspectives of the women involved in Outcare's St John of God Women's Program
… and supporting the successful transition of prisoners into the wider community following release is a challenge that has received increasing attention on the part of both researchers and policymakers alike, especially considering the great costs to the community of crime and incarceration. …
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The Intersection Of Image, Rhetoric, And Witnessing: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal
<p>This project looks at the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal and the ways those figured in the notorious images were named as "bad apples" to explain the shocking scenes to a mainstream American collective as well as expands more traditional understandings of witnessing through the examination of …
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Modeling the impact of screening algorithms and prisoner turnover levels on TB transmission in South African prisons
… prison cell under different conditions of prisoner turnover, cell ventilation and TB screening. High prisoner turnover rates substantially increased TB transmission. Furthermore, when assuming baseline conditions of no TB screening and poor cell ventilation (1 air change per hour), improved …
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Formerly Incarcerated Adults in Higher Education: A Life-History Study of a Restorative Approach to Prisoner Reentry
… incarceration rate and the largest number of prisoners. Each year more than 700,000 inmates are released from prison and re-enter their communities. The majority of released prisoners lack the necessary education, work experience, and life skills to successfully reintegrate back into …
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The Disobedient Prisoner: A Racial Comparison of the Level of Punishment Prescribed to Inmates for Rule Violations
With the various studies that point to racial disparities at different levels of the United States' criminal justice system, it is necessary to uncover all places within the system where racial disparities might exist. Understanding that Black inmates are disproportionately represented within the …
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GHOSTS BEYOND OUR REALM A neo-abolitionist analvsis of prisoner human rights and prison officer occupational culture
… policies and prison officer understandings of prisoner human rights, in the period from October 2000 to October 2005. Discourse analysis is used to structure the thesis, with the implementation of the HRA located within what Foucault (1972) has called a "discursive formation": that is, the …
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