Antecedents of Imperial Incarceration
In: The Sun Never Sets, S. 350-374
In: The Sun Never Sets, S. 350-374
In: New York University Review of Law & Social Change, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 13-21
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In: New left review: NLR, Heft 13, S. 41-60
ISSN: 0028-6060
The fate of US blacks, from the time of Jefferson to that of Reagan & Clinton, trapped within four successive 'peculiar institutions', is analyzed under a sociological spotlight. The origins of American racism & its outcomes in today's hyperghetto & prison regimes are examined. Adapted from the source document.
In: Public choice, Band 172, Heft 3-4, S. 377-395
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Heft 171
ISSN: 0146-5945
The California prison system, the largest in the country and the most at risk legally, operated at almost 200 percent of rated holding capacity, with more than 160,000 inmates. A special three-judge federal court had found that these conditions, in which suicides, violence, and lack of health care and other social services were endemic, violate the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause and ordered the state to reduce its prison census by as many as 46,000 inmates, to only 137.5 percent of capacity. In May 2011, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision (Brown v. Plata), affirmed the lower court, upholding what dissenting justices called perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation's history, one based on a judicial travesty. Operating under intense legal, political, and budgetary pressures, policymakers must search desperately for other ways to reduce prison overcrowding until the necessary but politically elusive structural and policy changes can be made. Under these difficult conditions, any policy that promises to reduce overcrowding without undue risk to public safety deserves serious consideration. In what follows, I propose such a policy. Simply stated, the federal government should deport some immigrant criminals before they enter prison, not after. This would seem to be a no-brainer. Adapted from the source document.
In: Monthly Review, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 38
ISSN: 0027-0520
In: Handbook of Families & Poverty, S. 269-287
Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction / Bruce Western, Mary Pattillo, and David Weiman -- Part I. Families -- Chapter 2. Incarceration and the Bonds Between Parents in Fragile Families / Bruce Western, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Sara McLanahan -- Chapter 3. Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men / Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal -- Chapter 4. Returning to Strangers: Newly Paroled Young Fathers and Their Children / Anne M. Nurse
In: Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-37
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In: The Good Society: a PEGS journal, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 114-120
ISSN: 1538-9731
In: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, S. 214-225
After forty years of skyrocketing incarceration rates, there are signs that a new "decarceration era" may be dawning; the prison population has leveled off and even slightly declined. Yet, while each branch of government has taken steps to reduce the prison population, the preceding decades of mass incarceration have empowered interest groups that contributed to the expansion of the prison industry and are now invested in its continued growth. These groups, which include public correctional officers and private prison management, resist decarceration-era policies, and they remain a substantial obstacle to reform. This Article scrutinizes the incentives of these industry stakeholders in the new decarceration era. Drawing on interviews with a wide range of industry actors, it develops a "taxonomy of resistance" to identify how and why these actors resist reform efforts and uncovers understudied parallels between private and public prison stakeholders. This fine-grained analysis grounds the Article's recommendations for changes to compensation and assessment structures to better align industry incentives with decarceration-era goals. Ultimately, the future of the decarceration era is precarious but not doomed. The detailed incentives unearthed by this study demonstrate the significant hurdles facing emerging decarceration policies and the urgent challenge of accounting for, overcoming, and co-opting entrenched prison industry stakeholders.
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In: Today's debates
The history of american prisons -- Challenges and controversy in us prisons -- Education and health care -- Violence behind bars -- Juveniles in the prison system -- Detaining immigrants -- Life in prison or parole? -- Choosing between rehabilitation and punishment -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.
In: Sage contemporary social science issues series 45
"Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place."-- Publisher's description.