Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences [Paperback]

Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences,Second Edition, investigates and analyzes prisons--and the often undocumented costs of imprisonment for all involved. 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.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.PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Prisons: Then and Now1. The Purpose and Function of Prisons2. The Philadelphia and Auburn Models3. 1900-1950s4. 1960-1980s-- New Expectations-- Racial Politics-- Drugs-- Young Offenders-- The Death of the Rehabilitative Era5. 1980-Today6. Prisons and Politics7. ConclusionChapter 2: Explaining Incarceration1. The Rise of Imprisonment2. The United States Compared to the World3. Comparing States' Rates of Incarceration4. Incarceration and Race/Ethnicity5. Explaining the Increase-- Crime-- Sentencing Changes-- Increased Punitiveness -- Increased Parole Revocations-- The War on Drugs -- The Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill-- The Privatization of Prisons6. Reversing the Trend7. ConclusionChapter 3: The New Bastille1. The Numberlƒt