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Showing 1 to 20 of 388 for “"Prisons"”.
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Prisons, their `partners', and `resettlement : a study of four male prisons
… the delivery of `resettlement' services within prisons. The thesis takes as its focus a period when prisons and their `partners' were considering, and responding to, emerging central governmental proposals for a National Offender Management Service which resulted from the publication of Patrick …
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Toward an economics of prisons
… to apply economic analysis to the management of prisons. In particular, we analyze the operations of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Using a linear programming framework we create a model of how the Bureau generates costs and benefits for society, and the model is then run to maximize the net …
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Civil War prisons in American memory
The memory of Civil War prisons has always been contested. Since 1861, generations of Americans struggled with the questions raised by the deaths of approximately 56,000 prisoners of war, almost one-tenth of all Civil War fatalities. During the war, throughout Reconstruction, and well into the …
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Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… compounds. From late 1863 to 1865, the Danville Prisons held over 7,000 captured Federals. The compound was used as both a permanent place of confinement and a transitory depot. The earliest captives found the prisons ill-prepared. Inadequate food, heat, and medical facilities contributed to …
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Delivering Computer-Based Training Within State Prisons
… are 43 percent less likely to return to prison.1 Prisons in the United States often partner with local organizations to provide job training and certification to incarcerated individuals, but few offer technical-vocational skills. Many programs rely exclusively on a partnership with a local …
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Arresting the cycle : design for porous prisons
… "generate" the majority of offenders most U.S. prisons are located outside of cities. Every year more than six hundred thousand prisoners are released to return home, but almost fifty percent of the released return back to prison within three years. This migration of offenders back and forth …
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Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in United Kingdom Prisons
The mandate of prisons is to provide an enabling environment for the reformation of law breakers, but they are also increasingly doing the exact opposite, deepening, and contributing to the radicalisation of inmates and exposing them to extremist ideologies that ultimately lead them to terrorist …
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Examining gender specific treatment programs in women's prisons
<p>The female offender population has been the fastest growing segment of the correctional population. Historically, victimization and trauma are highly correlated with substance abuse and dependency that are known to have a significant impact on females' pathway toward criminal lifestyle, …
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Sequencing the Body: Prisons and the Spatial Imaginary
This thesis spatializes the sequences of occupied and interactive spaces in prison institutions, in an attempt to explore and understand the nature of these spaces and their relationship to the body. Six spaces - exterior, recreation, visitation, the cell block, general population cells, and …
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Philosophy in Prisons: An Exploration of Personal Development
… The research, which took place in two prisons, explores the role of prison education, community dialogue and active philosophising in encouraging personal development. With similar populations but contrasting characters, HMPs Grendon and Full Sutton provided the backdrop to grounded, …
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Private prisons : international experiences and South African prospects
Bibliography: leaves 165-170.
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Imagining Modernity in the Uganda Prisons Service, 1945-1979
… dissertation is a social history of the Uganda Prisons Service in the late colonial and early post-colonial periods. Focusing particularly on prison officers, it advances four key arguments. Firstly, it argues that global visions of the prison were crucial in shaping the Service’s development, …
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Breaking the silence on violation in South African prisons
South Africa is legitimately recognized and admired internationally for changes it has made since 1994 from an authoritarian to a democratic political dispensation. While changes in visible forms of violation may have accompanied political change, its extent as a national crisis has been sustained. …
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The racial composition of prisons and the conditions of confinement
… decreased program opportunities are evident in prisons with larger populations of Blacks. Findings from the present study indicate that the overall level of programming does not appear to be impacted by larger populations of Blacks; however, facilities with larger populations of Blacks are less …
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Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons
Although Civil War historians assume that people in the past experienced the world through their senses, they rarely give explicit attention to nonvisual senses such as hearing and smell. This thesis takes nonvisual senses seriously. Unlike vision, hearing cannot be turned off, making sound and the …
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