TY  - GEN
N2  - Clear and comprehensive, Prisons, Revised Edition examines the state of U.S. prisons and related issues. It focuses on the development of prisons in the United States and how the competing goals of punishment and rehabilitation have shaped the evolution of criminal correction. An overview presents statistics on U.S. prisons and explores the issues behind those statistics, including racial disparity among prisoners and the causes of recidivism. The financial costs of running prisons and the mixed record of private prisons are examined, and laws and legislation relating to issues of incarceration.
AB  - Clear and comprehensive, Prisons, Revised Edition examines the state of U.S. prisons and related issues. It focuses on the development of prisons in the United States and how the competing goals of punishment and rehabilitation have shaped the evolution of criminal correction. An overview presents statistics on U.S. prisons and explores the issues behind those statistics, including racial disparity among prisoners and the causes of recidivism. The financial costs of running prisons and the mixed record of private prisons are examined, and laws and legislation relating to issues of incarceration.
T1  - Prisons
DA  - c2011.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Ferro, Jeffrey.
ET  - Rev. ed.
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - HV9471
PB  - Facts On File, Inc.,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2011.
N1  - Description based on print version record.
ID  - 428583
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Prisons
SN  - 9781438133980 (electronic bk.)
TI  - Prisons
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