Education & Recidivism in Texas Prisons 
EDUCATION AND RECIDIVISM IN
TEXAS PRISONS: A RESEARCH PROPOSAL As the prison population in the United States hit record levels in 1998 (the latest full year ....
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Privatization of Prisons
.... guards (Schlosser, 1998). Conditions at some private
prisons in
Texas prompted states to cancel their contracts. Montana did exactly ....
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Criminals and the recidvism rate
.... By the year 1994, drug and alcohol counseling for inmates showed signs of preventing recidivism in
Texas prisons (Elliot, 1994). ....
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Issue of Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders
.... other alternatives are working. For example, in
Texas prisons there are nearly 8,000 sex offenders. Their crimes include indecent ....
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2 Essays: Population Overcrowding. Texas Boom
.... problems, suicides, and overall death rate than less populated
prisons (Aronson et al ....
TEXAS BOOM: In discussing Larkin between 1928-1968, James Michener (185 ....
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RECIDIVISM AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Introductio
.... For example, over 60 studies of prison academic and vocational programs instituted in
Texas prisons were examined by the
Texas State Department of Criminal ....
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Brief Essays on Several Premises
.... In the 1990s,
Texas added more people to
prisons (98,081) than New York's entire prison population (73,233). If
prisons are a cure ....
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Ann Richards
.... Richards increased prison space, cut the release of violent offenders, introduced a nationally respected substance abuse program in
Texas prisons, and stood ....
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Ann Richards Ann Richards was an important figu
.... Richards increased prison space, cut the release of violent offenders, introduced a nationally respected substance abuse program in
Texas prisons, and stood ....
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Prisons and Crime Reduction
.... especially for
prisons (Leighton, 2000). However, there was little oversight on how the money was spent, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts for
Texas was ....
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Inmate Prison Violence in America
.... In addition, removing non-violent inmates from
prisons will reduce overcrowding and the mixing .... seen in the case of the Eastham Unit of the
Texas Department of ....
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Incarcerated Illegal Immigrants
.... to the claims of states like California, Florida, and
Texas when it .... had a significantly smaller share of illegals incarcerated in state
prisons and attending ....
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Evaluation of Prison Privatization Privatizat
.... was hired to renovate and reopen the Central
Texas Parole Violator .... In its
prisons, Wackenhut supplies security, food, health care, education, rehabilitation ....
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The Mexican Mafia or La EME
.... Mafia to organize itself profitably within
prisons under the guise of constitutional rights for prisoners. Prior to 1980, for example, the
Texas Department of ....
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HIV/AIDS Prisoners. Child Pornography
.... with outright AIDS was 5,227, 4601 in State
prisons and 626 in Federal
prisons. Again, the highest concentrations were found in New York,
Texas and Florida ....
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Programs to Reduce Crime in the US
.... especially for
prisons (Leighton, 2000). However, there was little oversight on how the money was spent, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts for
Texas was ....
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The Attica Prison Riot
....
Texas even withheld fans from inmates as punishment in the middle of a .... there were one million people living in America's federal and state
prisons, an another ....
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Reduction of Inmate Privileges
.... In one state,
Texas, which has enacted such laws, the incarceration rate has reached .... In 1992, state outlays for the construction of new
prisons increased by 16 ....
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History of Punishment of Criminals
.... not see prisoners being transported back and forth between
prisons and courts .... the norm, executions were still taking lace regularly, with
Texas averaging one ....
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Alternative Sentencing
.... and a half, the number of women incarcerated in the nation's
prisons had increased .... led the nation with 11,076 women in prison, followed by
Texas with 10,549 ....
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Problem of Jail Crowding in the US
.... Likewise, they set the sentences for state
prisons. .... In many jurisdictions, including Austin,
Texas, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a local judge has taken the ....
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Movement toward abolition of the death penalty
....
Texas has had 56 executions since 1976 and 367 are awaiting lethal injection. .... who currently serves as director of the Virginia Coalition on Jails and
Prisons. ....
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Mentally Ill & Crime
.... One well-publicized case in
Texas, the most execution-happy state in the nation .... as well as the host of mitigating factors responsible for using
prisons as a ....
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Private Correctional Corporations
.... The states studied were California, Tennessee, Washington,
Texas, and New Mexico. .... More recently, Segal (Do private
prisons save money, 2002) compared 23 ....
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AIDS IN PRISON Introduction This research pap
.... The
Texas Department of Criminal Justice is the largest prison system in the United States. .... In 1981, the median age of inmates in
prisons in the New York State ....
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Solitary Confinement
.... The practice of solitary confinement continues to be widely used in
prisons. .... a challenge to the conditions of solitary confinement in the
Texas prison system ....
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Types of Punishments for Criminals
.... DL "Results of a multisite study of boot camp
prisons." Boot camp .... were in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and
Texas. ....
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Involuntary Commitment: The civil rights of the mental health ...
.... The US Supreme Court agreed that the
Texas standard violated Addington's due .... In those situations, mental hospitals clearly are analogous to
prisons (Grob, 1994 ....
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The Death Penalty Support
.... leaving nearly 3,000 persons on the so-called death row in American
prisons. .... executions since 1976, with more of these executions occurring in
Texas than in ....
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PROPOSITION 187 California Proposition 187 & Illegal Immigrants
.... for "runaway welfare costs," expenditures for health, welfare and
prisons which in .... largely (86 percent) in seven states, California, Florida,
Texas, New York ....
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