Prisons /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Greenhaven Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Current controversies.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Has society benefited from more prisons?
- Increased incarceration has reduced crime / Ilana Mercer
- The threat of incarceration deters criminal behavior / Morgan Reynolds
- Imprisonment is a socially just response to crime / Lowell Ponte
- The costs of prison expansion are warranted / Gary Aldrich
- Increased incarceration has not reduced crime / Vince Beiser
- The threat of incarceration does not deter criminal behavior / Stuart Henry
- The expanding prison system is socially unjust / Marc Mauer
- Building more prisons in not cost-effective / Cait Murphy
- 2. How should inmates be treated?
- Incarceration should be punitive / John Ensign
- Harsher prisons exacerbate criminal behavior / Kenneth L. McGinnis
- Supermaximum security prisons are necessary for violent offenders / Gerald Berge, Jeffrey Geiger, Scot Whitney
- Supermaximum security prisons are inhumane / Sasha Abramsky
- Inmates will benefit from anti-rape legislation / Robert W. Dumond
- Inmates are not likely to benefit from anti-rape legislation / Robert Weisberg, David Mills
- Inmate health care must be improved / National Commission on Correctional Health Care
- ch. 3. Should prisons use inmate labor?
- Prison labor : an overview / Joseph T. Hallinan
- Prison labor teaches valuable job skills / Morgan Reynolds, Knut Rostad
- Prison labor reduces incarceration costs / Robert D. Atkinson
- Prison labor facilitates inmate rehabilitation / Bob Wignall
- Prison labor takes jobs from American workers / Tom Adkins
- Prison labor does not reduce incarceration costs / Joel Dyer
- Prison labor exploits prisoners / Jane Slaughter
- 4. How should the prison system be reformed?
- The privatization of prisons should continue / Samuel Jan Brakel, Kimberly Ingersoll Gaylord
- Private prisons are poorly run / Jenni Gainsborough
- Nonviolent drug offenders do not belong in prison / Stuart Taylor Jr.
- Drug offenders belong in prison / James R. McDonough
- Prisons should focus more on rehabilitation / Philip Brasfield
- Prisoner education programs will reduce recidivism / Monica Frolander-Ulf, Michael D. Yates
- Released prisoners should be helped to transition into society / Jeremy Travis.