Prisons and Prison Life Costs and Consquences

by Pollock, Joycelyn M.

• ISBN13: 9780195332216
• ISBN10: 0195332210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Prisons and Prison Life investigates and analyzes prisons--and the often undocumented costs of imprisonment for all involved. Beginning with a short history of imprisonment in the U.S., the text covers all aspects of prison life, including profiles of prisoners, a description of life in prison, women's prisons, correctional officers, management issues, and re-entry. The use of first-person quotations further enriches the discussion and personalizes the issues. Topical issues such as private prisons, supermax prisons, and AIDS are also discussed. Coverage includes: * A detailed and comprehensive discussion of the history of imprisonment rates and its impact on other areas of government spending * A chapter on the "drug war" and how it has contributed to the explosive growth of prisons and affected the subcultures within them * A chapter on the emerging problem of re-entry and how we must be prepared to accept back into society thousands of offenders who were given long sentences in the early 1980s * A discussion of how women's prisons are different from men's and the unique management issues associated with prisons for women * A detailed chapter on prisoner rights and the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act * Review questions to stimulate class discussion or for testing purposes

Table of Contents

Prisons: Then and Now

The War on Drugs: A Misguided Policy

The New Bastille: Prisons Today

The Prisoners

Living in Prison: Wasted Lives and Broken Dreams

Programs, Education and Health Care

Prisoner Rights: ""Now You See Them, Now You Don't""

Prisons for Women

""Doing Time Eight to Five""

""We Shall Be Released

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