Rules and Regulations of the Texas Department of Corrections
Author : Texas. Department of Corrections
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1957*
Category : Correctional law
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Author : Texas. Department of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1957*
Category : Correctional law
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Budget
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Author : John W. Mannering
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Prisoners
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Author : Heather Schoenfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 022652101X
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world’s leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it? Reframing the story of mass incarceration, Heather Schoenfeld illustrates how the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans led to a series of policy choices that expanded the government’s power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence. Examining civil rights protests, prison condition lawsuits, sentencing reforms, the War on Drugs, and the rise of conservative Tea Party politics, Schoenfeld explains why politicians veered from skepticism of prisons to an embrace of incarceration as the appropriate response to crime. To reduce the number of people behind bars, Schoenfeld argues that we must transform the political incentives for imprisonment and develop a new ideological basis for punishment.
Author : Maryland. Board of Correction
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1958
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Crime
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Author : Anne E. Parsons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1469640643
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic. This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.
Author : National Probation and Parole Association (U.S.)
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Crime
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Author : New York (N.Y.)
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 1917
Category : New York (N.Y
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Author : Pennsylvania. Bureau of Correction
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Prisons
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