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Metamorphosis : how to transform punishment in America
In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadequate. Some people believe that contracting out prison services to for-profit companies is a recipe for mistreatment. Robert Ferguson argues that these reforms barely scratch the surface of what is wrong with American prisons: an atmosphere of malice and humiliation that subjects prisoners and guards alike to constant degradation. Bolstered by insights from hundreds of letters written by prisoners, Ferguson makes the case for an entirely new concept of prisons and their purpose: an \"inner architectonics of reform\" that will provide better education for all involved in prisons, more imaginative and careful use of technology, more sophisticated surveillance systems, and better accountability -- Dust jacket.
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Incarcerated Women’s Right to Health: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Reality
This article aims to investigate the impact of incarceration on women with regard to their right to health in the criminal justice system in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Despite the universal recognition of the right to health within detention facilities, it has received limited scholarly attention. There is a pressing need for research on this topic due to the identified gap in the literature concerning incarcerated women, with the available data being fragmented and insufficient in addressing the women offender’s right to health in detention settings in the region. The findings of this article indicate that the use of detention facilities as a punitive measure has a significant detrimental impact on women, resulting in additional challenges within these environments. This results in gender-based disparities and differential inequalities of treatment that are systematically imposed upon women within the prison and criminal justice systems. Despite this evidence, incarcerated women are marginalised in discussions related to criminal justice system treatment. A significant absence of concrete steps towards reforming the criminal justice system remains.
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Life imprisonment : a global human rights analysis
Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights-based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps, charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices. The central question--can life sentences be just?--is straightforward, but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also examine the outliers--states that have no life imprisonment--to highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely. Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers, lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.-- Provided by publisher
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Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT Enhancing Services for Recently Incarcerated People and Their Families
Background: Our goal was to facilitate the equitable health of people who have been incarcerated and their families. We wanted to help clinicians feel more comfortable about assisting patients with incarceration history, an identified vulnerable population. Methods: We identified and met with regional experts in correctional managed health and in innovative clinical treatment programs and held educational sessions in July 2016. With key informants, we developed pretest and posttest measures to evaluate the educational session. We also planned and held a follow-up discussion with residents that focused on reflection, communication skills, changes in behavior, and best practices. Results: Pretests and posttests compared level of knowledge, understanding, and comfort before and after the educational session. The data revealed significant differences in participants’ reports about importance and awareness of the issue, in likelihood of asking about incarceration, in comfort level when asking, in perceived knowledge of health issues, in confidence in linking patients with resources, in awareness of barriers to care, and in empathy. The data showed a mean increase pretest and posttest in providers’ likelihood to ask about incarceration (from 2.9 to 5.61) and their comfort level in asking if a patient had been incarcerated (from 3.6 to 5.17). Conclusion: The educational session resulted in an increase in awareness, likelihood, and level of comfort in asking about incarceration, as well as an increase in perceived knowledge of health issues and barriers to care. Follow-up discussions are important to affirm learning and continue to address unconscious bias and equitable care.
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Doing time on the outside
This startling ethnography uncovers the other side of the incarceration saga: the little-told story of the effects of imprisonment on prisoners' families. Since 1970 the incarceration rate in the United States has more than tripled, and in many cities—urban centers such as Washington, D.C.—it has increased over fivefold. But the numbers don't reveal what life is like for the children, wives, and parents of prisoners, or the subtle and not-so-subtle effects mass incarceration is having on inner-city communities. Donald Braman shows that those doing time on the inside are having a ripple effect on the outside—reaching deep into the family and community life of urban America. He offers fresh insights into how criminal justice policies are furthering, rather than abating, the problem of social disorder. Drawing on a series of powerful family portraits supported by extensive empirical data, Braman shines a light on the darker side of a system that is failing the very families and communities it seeks to protect.
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