Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
Dorothea Lynde Dix – 1845 – Read – More editions
George Thompson – 1848 – Read – More editions
Tackling Prison Overcrowding: Build More Prisons? Sentence Fewer Offenders?
J. M. Hough, Robert Allen, Enver Solomon – 2008 – Read – More editions
This book comprises nine chapters by leading academic experts, who expose the proposals of the Carter Review to critical scrutiny.
1993 – Read
The first such report on Egypt by human rights organization including on-site inspection and extensive interviews with current inmates, Prison conditions in Egypt documents appaling conditions and practices.
Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood, Kathryn Bardsley – 1982 – Read
Report of the Committee on Prison-Discipline to the Governor General of India
India. Committee on Prison-Discipline – 1838 – Read – More editions
No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons
2001 – Full view – More editions
Prison Conditions in South Africa
1994 – Full view
Prison life in South Africa is characterized by an elaborate system of gangs, through which much prisoner-on-prisoner violence is mediated. While gang activity is common to many prison systems, South African prison gangs are distinctive.
Female life in prison, by a prison matron [F.W. Robinson].
Frederick William Robinson – 1863 – Read – More editions
Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada
Enoch Cobb Wines, Theodore William Dwight – 1867 – More editions
Economic Impacts of Prison Growth
Suzanne M. Kirchhoff – 2010
The U.S. corrections system (CS) has gone through an unprecedented expansion during the last few decades.
Health in Prisons: A WHO Guide to the Essentials in Prison Health
Lars Møller, A. Gatherer, R. Jürgens – 2007
Based on the experience of many countries in the WHO European Region and the advice of experts, this guide outlines some of the steps prison systems should take to reduce the public health risks from compulsory detention in often unhealthy …
The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy – Volumes 13-18
1874 – More editions
Prison Suicide: An Overview and Guide to Prevention
Lindsay M. Hayes – 1995
As shown in Table 3-1, NCIA was able to verify 158 suicides in state and federal prisons during 1993, excluding suicides that occurred outside theprison (i.e., while on work release or escape status, for example). Based on a total prison …
Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners
Geffray Minshull – 1821 – More editions
Reports of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston – Volume 2
Mass.) Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Prison Discipline Society, Boston – 1855 – More editions
The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape
Willard W. Glazier – 1869 – More editions
Prison Bound: The Denial of Juvenile Justice in Pakistan
1999 – Full view – More editions
discharge,” and advise prison officials that “[t]he stimulus of personal touch and interest will be found far more effective than a rigid insistence on prisonroutine.”” In other respects, the Rules reflect the colonial-era laws on which they are based; …
An Authentic History of the Vermont State Prison
John Russell – 1812 – More editions
William E. Hellerstein, Lois Whitman – 1990
PREFACE Between January 1 1 and January 20, 1990, Professor William E. Hellerstein, a member of the Prison Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch and Lois Whitman, a consultant to Americas Watch, visited Jamaica to study …
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England) – 1822 – More editions
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England). Cambridge has been the cause of many persons remaining in gaol, who would otherwise have been at liberty. As an instance …
The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe
Pieter Spierenburg – 2007 – More editions
1 INTRODUCTION A Process Approach to Prison History The prisonexperience profoundly influenced the lives of ordinary inmates, but it also affected guards, managers, and policymakers. In a second sense, the concept refers to the …
William DODD – 1809 – More editions
Thomas Dring, Albert Gorton Greene, Henry Barton Dawson – 1865 – More editions
Nordic Prison Education: A Lifelong Learning Perspective
2005 – More editions
Description of prison education Objective of prison education The objective of education in the Norwegian Prison system, as stated by the Ministry of Education and Research, is to give comprehensive and upper secondary education to …
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
John Howard – 1777 – More editions
Comparing Federal and State Prison Inmates, 1991
Caroline Wolf Harlow – 1994
Prisoners with children An estimated 76% of Federal inmates and 65% of State inmates reported they had children (table 29). ln both Federal and State prisons, about 8 in 10 women had children. Federal inmates were parents of 70,300 …
An Illustrated History and Description of State Prison Life by One who Has Been There
Convict in a convict’s cell – 1871
The Mental Health of Prison Entrants in Australia
2010
In 2010, 31% of prison entrants reported that they had been told by a doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist or nurse that they had a mental health disorder (including drug and alcohol abuse) in their lifetime. This is about 2.5 times higher than the …
Laws of the Commonwealth for the Government of the Massachusetts State Prison
Massachusetts State Prison – 1830
The MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON is located on the Westernmost point of the Peninsula of Charlestown. The Old Prison was erected in 1804-5, with walls enclosing a Yard, subsequently enlarged to its present size, being 500 (eet long …