Prisons [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Ferro.
Ferro, Jeffrey.
2011
HV9471 .F465 2011eb
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Title Prisons [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Ferro.
Author Ferro, Jeffrey.
Edition Rev. ed.
ISBN 9781438133980 (electronic bk.)
9780816082360
Imprint New York : Facts On File, Inc., c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (312 p.)
Call Number HV9471 .F465 2011eb
Summary 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Library in a book
Available in Other Form Prisons.
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Introduction to prisons
The law of prisons
Chronology
Biographical listing
Glossary
How to research prisons and correctional issues
Annotated bibliography
Organizations and agencies
Appendix A : statistics on state and federal prisoners
Appendix B : national prison rape elimination commission report (2009)
Appendix C : enemy combatant detainees: Habeas Corpus challenges in federal court (2009).

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