Prisons and Prison Life

Description

Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences, Second Edition, 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 a description of life in prison from the point of view of both inmates and officers, inmate rights, women's prisons, prison programs, and re-entry.

Rich pedagogical features help students absorb information, while end-of-chapter review questions stimulate lively class discussions. Quotations from inmates allow students to personalize the issues.

Offering a lucid, critical, yet balanced look at American prison life, this volume is ideal for courses on prisons and corrections.

New to this Edition

• Expanded discussion of the rapid growth of incarceration over the last few decades
• Updated data and statistics throughout
• Includes the most current research on prison sexual assault
• New online resources for further reading

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Prisons: Then and Now
1. The Purpose and Function of Prisons
2. The Philadelphia and Auburn Models
3. 1900-1950s
4. 1960-1980s
-- New Expectations
-- Racial Politics
-- Drugs
-- Young Offenders
-- The Death of the Rehabilitative Era
5. 1980-Today
6. Prisons and Politics
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2: Explaining Incarceration
1. The Rise of Imprisonment
2. The United States Compared to the World
3. Comparing States' Rates of Incarceration
4. Incarceration and Race/Ethnicity
5. Explaining the Increase
-- Crime
-- Sentencing Changes
-- Increased "Punitiveness"
-- Increased Parole Revocations
-- The "War on Drugs"
-- The Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill
-- The Privatization of Prisons
6. Reversing the Trend
7. Conclusion
Chapter 3: The New Bastille
1. The Number and Types of Prisons
2. Federal and State Systems
-- State Prisons
3. Overcrowding
4. The Super-Max
5. Private Prisons
-- Proponents and Opponents of Privatization
-- Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group
-- Evaluations of Private Prisons
-- Interstate Transfer
6. Conclusion
Chapter 4: Prisoners
1. The Demographics of Prisoners
-- Race
-- Age
-- Medical/Physical Characteristics
-- Education and Employment Histories
-- Family
2. Prisoners: Yesterday and Today
3. Special Populations
-- Mentally Ill
-- Mentally Handicapped
-- Drug Dependent Offenders
4. Classification
5. Medical Services
6. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Rehabilitation Revisited
1. The Legacy of the Rehabilitative Era
2. What Is Treatment?
-- Recreation
3. Education, Vocational Training, and Industry
-- Education
-- Vocational Training and Industry
4. Drug Treatment
-- Evaluating Drug Treatment
5. Rehabilitative Programs and the Will to Change
-- Evaluations
-- The Will to Change
6. Evidence-Based Corrections
7. Conclusion
Chapter 6: Living in Prison
1. Prisoner Subculture Research
2. Elements of the Subculture
-- Prison Argot
-- Inmate Code
-- The Black Market
3. Race and Gangs
4. Prison Violence
-- Correlates of Violence
-- Economic Violence
-- Sexual Violence
-- Riots and Collective Violence
-- Changes in Prison Violence
5. Coping in the Prison World
6. Conclusion
Chapter 7: Prisons for Women
1. Increasing Numbers
2. History of Women's Prisons
3. Gendered Pathways and Gendered Programming
-- Pathways Research
-- Victimization
-- Drugs
-- Importance of Relationships
-- Pathways and Classification
-- Gender-Specific Programming
4. Living in Prison
-- Violence
5. Sexual Relationships and Sexual Violence
-- Sexual Victimization by Staff Members
6. Mothers in Prison
7. Conclusions
Chapter 8: Prisoners' Rights
1. Causes of Action and Sources of Rights
2. First Amendment
-- Freedom of Religion
-- Freedom of Speech and Press
-- Rights of Association
3. Fourth Amendment
4. Eighth Amendment
-- Medical Care and Rehabilitation
-- Excessive Use of Force/Other Punishments
-- Totality of Circumstances
5. Fourteenth Amendment
-- Access to Courts
-- Disciplinary Proceedings
-- Other Deprivations
6. Conclusion
Chapter 9: Correctional Staff and Administration
1. Correctional Officers
-- The Changing Role of the Guard
-- Correctional Officers Today
-- "Structured Conflict"
-- The Officer Subculture
-- Stress
-- The Human Service Officer
2. Violence
3. Managing the Prison
-- Unionization
-- Civil Service and Workforce Diversity
-- Cross-Sex Supervision and Sexual Misconduct
-- Corruption and Unethical Practices
4. Conclusions
Chapter 10: Release, Reentry, and the Future of Prisons
1. Reentry and Recidivism
2. Parole
3. Civil Liberties
4. Barriers to Success
5. Envisioning the Perfect Prison
-- The Importance of Justice
6. Cutting Back on Prison
-- The Prison Industrial Complex
7. Conclusion
Table of Cases
Bibliography