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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"prison system"”.
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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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FOOD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
… the United States. The growing epidemic of the prison industrial complex creates a critical situation; performance studies offers significant ways to address the increasing problems of incarceration. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the intersection of academic literature connecting …
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Rehabilitation Programmes and Recidivism in the Zambian Prison System
… curb the rising crime rate and rehabilitation of prison inmates is one of them. But even though it is one of the purposes of imprisonment in general and rehabilitation programmes in particular (which in Zambia mainly consist of teaching a skill to the prison inmates) to convert "criminals" into …
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Rehabilitation Programmes and Recidivism in the Zambian Prison System
… curb the rising crime rate and rehabilitation of prison inmates is one of them. But even though it is one of the purposes of imprisonment in general and rehabilitation programmes in particular (which in Zambia mainly consist of teaching a skill to the prison inmates) to convert "criminals" into …
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Defining the Church's Advocacy Role to the Modern Prison System
… the Church's Advocacy Role to the Modern Prison System," is developed from the Catholic Church's social thought over the past century and the episcopal teaching of the American bishops over the past three decades. Chapter one reviews the concept of 'advocate' and the Church's advocacy role …
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Death at Elmira: George W. Jernigan, William Hoffman, and the Union Prison System.
… examines the interaction between the Union Prison System led by William Hoffman and the Confederate prisoners-of-war, specifically those held at Elmira, New York. By focusing on Hoffman's actions and decisions in the last year of the war, the Confederate death toll can be better …
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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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Interprofessional collaborative practice in the Norwegian prison system: a case study exploration of front-line professionals at two transitional residences reintegrating inmates back into society.
The Norwegian prison system has been debated to be one of the most exceptional in the world with a distinct welfare model and reoffending rates amongst the lowest, but practical concerns still present due to mental illness impacting on 92% of inmates. Addressing mental health in the prison …
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Desarrollo y destrucción del sistema liberal de prisiones. De la Restauración a la Guerra Civil
… War, Spain experienced the development of a prison system that was markedly liberal in nature. This system would begin gaining robustness and institutional credibility from the first decade of the 20th Century, peaking in the early years of the Second Republic government. Thus, a penitentiary …
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The prison and the city: A tale of two cultures
… the working lives and experiences of uniformed prison staff at HMP Pentonville and HMP Hull – two inner-city Victorian local prisons in England. It examines the meaning and role of place in the narratives of prison staff at work in two (distinct yet similar) prisons within the late modern penal …
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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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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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Trajetórias de mulheres envolvidas no mercado de drogas
It is undisputed that the female prison population has increased in recent years in Brazil. Overcrowding and insalubrity are endemic in the Brazilian prison system, in the face of both sexes. In absolute numbers, the number of men imprisoned is greater. However, the percentage of incarceration of …
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Organizações criminosas nas prisões da Bahia: um estudo sob a ótica dos protagonistas da gestão prisional na RMS
… sources related to criminal organizations and prisons, as well as documents and data from the Brazilian National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) Information System and the Bahia State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration and Resocialization (SEAP), this study characterizes the Bahia …
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Visit the Imprisoned: A Heuristic Inquiry into the Experiences of Catholic Detention Ministry Volunteers
… have led me to wonder then, “Why does the prison system still exist to harm people despite the array of research condemning its practices?” Through this pondering, I critiqued the larger systems at play: the prison-industrial complex, the sociopolitical rhetoric of “tough on crime,” and the …
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Kalėjimo subkultūra ir jos reikšmė kalinčių asmenų resocializacijai /
… has identified the main features of the prison subculture: hierarchical structure, informal rules and norms, jargon, etc (Petkus 2001; Vaičiūnienė 2017). The problem that the prison subculture and its peculiarities may hinder the implementation of effective resocialisation of prisoners, …
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Moterų nėštumo ir motinystės problematika laisvės atėmimo vietose /
In the prison system, little attention is still paid to pregnant women and mothers, ensuring their and their children's needs during the execution of the prison sentence. Because the majority of those in the prison system are men, gender - specific differences that should be addressed in the …
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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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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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