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Inmate governance in Brazilian prisons
No full textPrisons in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are run not so much by prison guards as by inmates. In circumstances of severe overcrowding and acute staff shortage, prisoners are recruited or organise themselves, not only to perform clerical and janitorial work, but also to provide for welfare, discipline and security. Such inmate governance is as much a defining feature of Brazilian prison life as are inhumane living conditions. In recent years the roles played by inmates in managing the day-to-day running of Brazilian prisons have been largely subsumed by prison gangs. However, staff-inmate relations remain characterised less by conflict and power as by accommodation and reciprocity
Rehabilitation treatment for inmates of county jails
No full textPlan BThis literature review was conducted to determine the effects of rehabilitation programs on recidivism rates of the incarcerated in Wisconsin jails. Rehabilitation in the county jail is becoming common even though there is a belief that imprisonment should be about punishment, not rehabilitation. The efforts to rehabilitate are primarily undertaken for the benefit of the community, not the inmate. It is in the community's interest that programs should aim to minimize the negative effects of incarceration, maximize the inmate's ability to successfully reintegrate into the community upon release, and provide alternatives to an offending lifestyle. It should be a central goal of imprisonment to ensure that inmates leave correctional facilities with more employability and community living skills than when they were sentenced. If a prisoner only "does time" for a crime, upon release, he or she will have no preparation for re-entering society. Without treatment, counseling, or educational training the chance of recidivism becomes higher. Society holds people accountable for their actions, but allowing inmates to sit in a cell for the duration of their sentence is not productive. However, an inmate may benefit from participating in literacy classes, vocational training, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) treatment, anger management classes, and/or domestic violence treatment. Programs should be offered and available to those who need them. Failure to address disabling conditions among inmates may yield higher rates of recidivism for those who are released into the community. Inmates provided the opportunities to improve marketable skills are more able to secure adequate employment and less likely to return to a life of crim
KhayyamAkhtar/Inmate-Suicidal-Behavior-Prediction-in-Smart-Prisons: Suicidal Behavior Prediction Smart Prisons Source Code v1.0
No full text<p>The first release of the source code implemented for paper titled "Predicting Inmate Suicidal Behavior with an Interpretable Ensemble Approach in Smart Prisons".</p>
Differences in Inmate-Inmate and Inmate-Staff Altercations: Examples from a Medium Security Prison
No full textInmate violence is a major concern for correctional organizations. Most research on violence lump together inmate-inmate and inmate-staff violence and attempt to understand them from a single perspective. This article posits that inmate-inmate and inmate-staff violence are different phenomenon. Data from a medium security prison is used to understand the relationship between inmate-inmate and inmate-staff violence and other variables. Inmate-inmate altercations are related to structural and interpersonal variables. Inmate-staff altercations are related to the extent to which inmates are involved in social relationship with other inmates and see the correctional staff as a physical threat to them. variables. Inmate-staff altercations are related to the extent to which inmates are involved in social relationship with other inmates and see the correctional staff as a physical threat to them. variables. Inmate-staff altercations are related to the extent to which inmates are involved in social relationship with other inmates and see the correctional staff as a physical threat to them
Inmate assaults FY 2011-2015
No full textThis report shows inmate assaults from fiscal year 2011-2015. These assault charges are from inmate on inmate, inmate on employee, and inmate on other persons
Inmate-to-Inmate: Socialization, Relationships, and Community Among Incarcerated Men
No full textPrison's walls keep prisoners in, but in many ways, they simultaneously keep the public out. Although researchers have studied and investigated different aspects of prisons, an area with particularly little notice has been the interactions between and amongst incarcerated men. With all of the concerted efforts and discussions attempting to create more stable inmate communities, the importance of understanding the social relationships is critical and significant for policy makers and the general public. I focus on California's male prison institutions where, due to sentencing procedures and isolated geographical locations of prisons, men are often sent to prisons far from hometowns, making it particularly difficult for friends and family to visit. Given the difficulty accessing home community relationships, inmate-to-inmate relations often form the basis of social interaction during an individual's sentence, and the inmate community forms a significant aspect of the prison experience.In attempting to understand the social environment of inmates, the previous discourse has highlighted and emphasized negative occurrences to explain the community and the interactions of its members in its entirety. The mystery of this community by lack of research, combined with hyped news and misconstrued popular media portrayals, has led to suppositions and theories about the relational dynamics amongst incarcerated men that remain simplistic and shallow. In particular, accounts of gang organization and rapes in prison have received exceptional attention. While striking and noteworthy, these types of incidences have overpowered the literature on inmate-to-inmate relationships.In this thesis, social relations between incarcerated men are given context by recognizing effects of both the institutional structural setting and informal social organization, including oft left-out positive inmate interactions of non-violent, non-criminal relations. By examining inmate-to-inmate relationships from the incarcerated men's perspectives, utilizing documented verification, and placing violent actions into the institutional framework, understandings of inmate-to-inmate relationships are further developed for a truer comprehension of the community, and ultimately of the incarcerated individuals
Inmate wages
No full text"July 30, 2018."; Discusses the laws in Connecticut regarding inmate wages for work they perform while imprisoned and how inmate pay rates in Connecticut compare to other states
Inmate education
No full textThe aim of this thesis to focus on the main patterns of imprisonment and to overview the contemporary approaches in inmate treatment. Based on the principles of humanization of penitentiary system the improve of the alternatives in inmates treatment mea follow the main goal - the optimal come back to the society after release. As introduction to the field there is a general description of a legal frame of penitentiary system and imprisonment, prison environment, person of the criminal offender and the impal of long- term imprisonment on personality ganges. The meaning of inmate education is approached as key point in inmate treatment and as a possible key point in setting further life goals after inmate come back to the society. Research part assumes and evaluates the interviews focused on motivation in education given by inmates placed in high and maximum security establishments
Inmate Collective Action.
No full textMass inmate disturbances have been the subject of volumes of studies and investigations. Still explanations of these events are fragmented and narrow in perspective. This dissertation develops an integrated framework based on structural dimensions of prisons to account for disturbances where inmates undertake collective action against prison authority. Sociological theories of social conflict and collective action and particularly the resource mobilization perspective provide the underpinnings of the theory developed and tested. Our effort was to identify structural attributes of prison organization, i.e., their control orientation, stability, and adaptability, and forms of inmate social organization, i.e., the differentiated, the monolithic, and the atomistic, which we hypothesized would be associated with different probabilities of inmate collective action occurring and different levels of collective action intensity. Data for this study was collected from a representative sample of 45 U.S. male adult prison through mailed survey questionnaires. Analytic methods used were correlation, regression, and factor analysis. The results of the study indicate that custodial, unstable, and nonadaptive prison structures experienced more collective action than did prisons with ameliorative, stable, and restrictively adaptive structures. We also found that differentiated inmate populations, those with many inmate subgroups and organizations, were more likely to experience collective action, and collective actions with greater intensity than other forms of inmate social organization. In addition, the collective action prone prison structures and forms of inmate social organization tended to occur together in a nonramdom fashion suggesting that to some extent the structural characteristics of each take predictable forms as a consequence of their interaction over control within the organization. The theoretical argument made is that inmate collective action may be understood as the structural consequences of means and opportunities between prison authority and inmate populations. We argue that such a perspective provides a more wholistic and integrated framework in accounting for inmate collective action.PhDCriminologyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/159262/1/8304577.pd
Prison Inmate Labor. Tax Credit.
No full textPRISON INMATE LABOR. TAX CREDIT. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Amends state Constitution to permit state prison and county jail officials to contract with public entities, businesses, others, for inmate labor. Limits inmate labor during strike or lockout situations. Adds statutes requiring state prison director to establish joint venture programs for employment of inmates. Requires inmate wages be comparable to non-inmate wages for similar work. Makes inmate wages subject to deductions for: taxes, room and board, lawful restitution fine or victim compensation, and family support. Allows inmate\u27s employer ten percent of wage tax credit against defined state taxes. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: An unknown loss in state General Fund revenues because employer tax credits would exceed state prison inmate income tax payments; undetermined possible revenue to the state Restitution Fund; unknown, potentially major, savings in state costs, primarily from offsets of prison inmate wages against costs of incarceration and reduction of prison time from earned work credits. Magnitude of fiscal effect is dependent on the extent to which the program is implemented. Impact on local governments impossible to estimate because measure does not specify the components of local ordinances
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