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terms and conditions of employment, including representation of CCPOA in arbitration disputes arising from the collective bargaini...

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

brings up the question as to "What kind of society could justify locking up so many of its young men," who are the principle demo...

for anywhere from $50.00 to $100.00. From there, the next day, a plane ride from Honolulu to the island of Oahu, which would run a...

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

to be the case in areas that are extremely populated. In certain venues, this is not the case but rather, there is greater attenti...

in prison (Biniok, 2004). They contend that the costs of electronic supervision are unacceptable, even that such supervision viol...

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

that "prison is too good" for the likes of Bernardo (Whiteley, 1998). He needs to die, note these people, die painfully and slowly...

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

can symbolize aspects of society that a community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty,...

held in similar conditions of extreme confinement" (pp. 26). Abramsky details those numbers further by adding that, as of 2000, Te...

three types)? Control of the types of perspectives that are allowed into the cultures mainstream. They manipulate this so that the...

Seligman states that, "Perhaps 20,000 prisoners a year are getting out under early release programs....The criminal justice system...

run by private enterprise and is not in direct control of the government. In many domains, private companies have taken advantage ...

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

give a greater equality to those who do not have the political or economic power (Reiman, 2000). The role if position is im...

"California Governor Pete Wilson proposed adding 2,900 correctional employees to the California Department of Corrections -- more ...

(ABC News, 2002). The national average daily cost of care, per prisoner, is $58.00 (Prewitt, 2002). The basic assumption behind ...

What could possibly be good about stress? It is a natural motivator as well as a barometer of life. If an individual lives each ...

venues, inclusive of Alcatraz in San Franciso Bay, California (86). The design of such facilities radically altered the advent of...

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...