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Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer"

Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...

Jeffrey Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison"

(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...

Prison Overcrowding

There appear to be many attempts to alleviate the problems of overcrowding, each implemented by individual states and communities,...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes

and as such this book clearly offers insights. The next issue concerns an inmates need to experience respect, hope and saf...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Prison Privatization

vital option again during the 1980s and early 1990s for several reasons, the first of which was the existence of a general sociopo...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Prisons are Populated by the Wrong Offenders

(Kopel, 1995). Another article supports the notion that the majority of offenders in prison are not violent ("Crime," 1998). Ther...

A Typical Day In Prison

after which he cleans the room, which is his "job," apparently, in the prison (Myers, 2007). After that, he goes to the exercise r...

The Effectiveness of Prison Counselors

13 counseling teams, comprised of a "psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, nurse and secretary" (Younkman, 2003). Each team h...

Sentencing and Armed Robbery

sentences imposed throughout the U.S., data from the Department of Justice indicates that recidivism rates are extremely high, as ...

Behind a Convict’s Eyes/Prison Life

sums up this code very well: Even if you do not feel tough enough to cope, act as if you are. Suffer in silence. Never admit you a...

Wrongful Imprisonment in Colorado

under the Constitution as well as the U.S. Code. In Colorado, however, false imprisonment may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depen...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Prisons Should be Privatized

controlled by government. Questions in respect to government involvement and authority loom large. However, questions are even mo...

State of California and the Problem of Prison Overcrowding throughout the United States

p. 3569). Privately subsidized prisons have become a popular consideration as a means by which to offset the exorbitant amo...

Gobbet Analyses in the UK

treatment of prisoners at that particular time. As well as our usual prisoner survey, we also carried out structured interviews w...

Criminal Justice System and Discrimination

fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

California's Young White Males

one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilitie...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Newgate Prison

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

Women and Incarceration Conditions

that the majority of women in prison are there for less violent crimes and that the majority may well be minorities. Interestingly...

Article Review of 'Luxuries in Prison' by Lenz

television were free of charge, then the public might think they are practical tools for managing inmates. The research strategy ...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

Assessment of HIV Prison Population Plan for Nursing Management

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...