Crowded Prisons and Privatization 
.... 1990s, Welsh (10-11) states that prison overcrowding became the focus of reform efforts that targeted both county level
jails and state and federal
prisons. ....
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Privatization of Prisons
.... Faced with the court order to relieve overcrowding, Texas turned to private entrepreneurs during the 1980s to build
prisons and
jails (local facilities that ....
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Prisons and Crime Reduction
At the end of 1997, the United States had more than one and a half million people in
prisons and
jails, and the money spent to keep them there is often taken ....
(1275
5
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Journal Articles on Sociology of Corrections
.... out, the periodic literature of sociology does not seem to concern itself, generally, with the topic of corrections (ie,
jails,
prisons, incarceration, etc.). ....
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Problem of Jail Crowding in the US
.... criminal justice system to be constantly changing and developing, with many relationships and sources of authority beyond the control of the
jails and
prisons. ....
(1958
8
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KINSHIP NETWORKS IN FEMALE PRISONS
The number of women incarcerated in
prisons and
jails is growing dramatically. According to Harrison and Beck (2005), during 2004 ....
(2165
9
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California Super Max Prisons
.... in America toward crime, criminals, and incarceration are responsible for such
prisons. .... on a third conviction has also stuffed California
jails beyond capacity ....
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Modern American Mental Health Systems
.... social policy persisted throughout the nineteenth century, not least for the reason that the mentally ill were often confined to
jails,
prisons, and poorhouses ....
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Social Workers & Mental-Health System
.... social policy persisted throughout the nineteenth century, not least for the reason that the mentally ill were often confined to
jails,
prisons, and poorhouses ....
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14
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Early Release Programs for Non-Violent Crimes
About 500 of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars in local, state or federal
prisons and
jails (Cloud, 2009).
Prisons are almost ....
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Who's In Prison?
.... There are 1,209,640 inmates in state
prisons, 151,618 in federal
prisons, 665,475 in local
jails, and another 110,284 in juvenile facilities (Longley(2) 1). ....
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Corcoran State Prison & Prisoner Abuse
.... population in the state had grown from 19,600 to 159,000- an eight fold increase- and that the "state holds more inmates in its
jails and
prisons than do France ....
(2042
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Reduction of Inmate Privileges
.... In discussing a police raid on a Hudson County (NJ) jail, Purdy commented that "
prisons and county
jails nationwide are bulging with inmates, causing serious ....
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9
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Issue of Prison Privatization
.... He notes that the number of prisoners held in American
jails and
prisons reached approximately one million in the mid-1990s and is expected to increase as time ....
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INTERMITTENT INCARCERATION This research paper
.... that "when alternative sanctions are given resources they need and are allowed to work, they easily prove their value, taking pressure off
jails or
prisons . . ....
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TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS
.... In many parts of the less developed world, MDOs languish untreated in
jails and
prisons, as the United Nations has documented (United Nations Interregional ....
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Probation & Prison Overcrowding
.... With the nation's
prisons and
jails already overcrowded, any change in probation policies that reduced the proportion of persons under correctional supervision ....
(5644
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Prison and Correctional System
.... There are well over half a million adults in the
prisons and
jails of the US With over a million adults on probation and six million short time jail admissions ....
(1371
5
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Differentiation of Schizophrenia
.... NAMI-Public Citizen report, more than twice as many people with schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis are living in
jails and
prisons, public shelters ....
(1927
8
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Health Care in US State & Federal Prisons
.... Hurst and Morain (1994) say that in the California state
prisons the population .... a "jail glut," owing to the apparent overbuilding of some
jails to accommodate ....
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Low Level Criminal Suspects
.... In many states, the costs of constructing
jails and
prisons and maintaining inmates exceed expenditures on public education. At ....
(4332
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Education & Recidivism in Texas Prisons
EDUCATION AND RECIDIVISM IN TEXAS
PRISONS: A RESEARCH PROPOSAL As the prison .... Approximately 600,000 more persons were incarcerated in
jails serving sentences ....
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Prison Life in the 21st Century
.... of which 70 percent (5.1 million) were supervised in the community via probation or parole and 30 percent (2.2 million) who were in
prisons or
jails (Bureau of ....
(1221
5
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Programs to Reduce Crime in the US
At the end of 1997, the United States had more than one and a half million people in
prisons and
jails, and the money spent to keep them there is often taken ....
(1275
5
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Mentally Ill & Crime
....
Jails and
prisons have become the nation's new mental hospitals. Many of them were arrested for bizarre public behavior or petty crimes. ....
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Habitual Offender Statutes
.... generally been enacted under the assumption that crime would be reduced despite predictions to the contrary that the courts,
jails, and
prisons would become ....
(2888
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Three Strikes Law
.... generally been enacted under the assumption that crime would be reduced despite predictions to the contrary that the courts,
jails, and
prisons would become ....
(2934
12
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AIDS IN PRISON Introduction This research pap
.... The most common HIV control, prevention, and education strategies for
prisons and
jails include mandatory testing of inmates for HIV, segregating infected ....
(2535
10
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Predispositional Reports and Juveniles
.... As crime rates rose and
jails and
prisons became more overcrowded, concerns were raised that too many dangerous felons were being released early or paroled. ....
(3145
13
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Drug abuse and Crime
.... youngsters and their families today will surely result in significantly higher future costs--for law enforcement, the courts,
jails and
prisons, and health ....
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