American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement write by Joan Mullen. This book was released on 1980. American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Health and Incarceration
Health and Incarceration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health and Incarceration write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2013-08-08. Health and Incarceration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.
Hell Is a Very Small Place
Hell Is a Very Small Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hell Is a Very Small Place write by Jean Casella. This book was released on 2014-11-11. Hell Is a Very Small Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews
American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement
American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement write by Joan Mullen. This book was released on 1980. American Prisons and Jails: Conditions and costs of confinement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Growth of Incarceration in the United States write by Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration. This book was released on 2014-12-31. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than the rates in Western Europe and other democracies. The U.S. prison population is largely drawn from the most disadvantaged part of the nation's population: mostly men under age 40, disproportionately minority, and poorly educated. Prisoners often carry additional deficits of drug and alcohol addictions, mental and physical illnesses, and lack of work preparation or experience. The growth of incarceration in the United States during four decades has prompted numerous critiques and a growing body of scientific knowledge about what prompted the rise and what its consequences have been for the people imprisoned, their families and communities, and for U.S. society. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines research and analysis of the dramatic rise of incarceration rates and its affects. This study makes the case that the United States has gone far past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by social benefits and has reached a level where these high rates of incarceration themselves constitute a source of injustice and social harm. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines policy changes that created an increasingly punitive political climate and offers specific policy advice in sentencing policy, prison policy, and social policy. The report also identifies important research questions that must be answered to provide a firmer basis for policy. This report is a call for change in the way society views criminals, punishment, and prison. This landmark study assesses the evidence and its implications for public policy to inform an extensive and thoughtful public debate about and reconsideration of policies.
