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Federal prison populations : inmate crowding and Bureau of Prisons policies
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ISBN: 1624171907 9781624171901 9781624171895 1624171893 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers,

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The state of the prisons in England and Wales : with preliminary observations and an account of some foreign prisons
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ISBN: 1139891340 1108064523 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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First published in 1777 by the philanthropist John Howard (1726-90), this work was intended for as wide a readership as possible. Based on research from more than 300 visits to at least 230 different penal institutions on his extensive travels around Great Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, The State of the Prisons was a vital early contribution to the cause of penal reform. It provided, for the first time, systematic evidence of poor management and degrading conditions in institutions at home and abroad. Although Howard saw only limited changes to prisons in his lifetime, his labours formed a crucial platform for subsequent movements, notably the Howard League for Penal Reform, founded in 1866. This reissue incorporates a substantial appendix, compiled in 1784, which presents updated findings from further visits to British institutions as well as those in Germany, France, Italy, Flanders and Scandinavia, among many other places.


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Siberia and the exile system.
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ISBN: 1139225057 1108048234 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The American journalist George Kennan (1854-1924) spent many years travelling in and writing about Russia. After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, Kennan wanted to go to Siberia to examine the penal system and the punishment of political exiles. In this unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, Kennan gives vivid descriptions, accompanied by extensive illustrations of the prisons and labour camps and the harsh lives of the people forced to live there. This journey also led to a personal transformation for Kennan himself - he started out as a supporter of the tsarist government but when he returned to the United States, he had become an advocate of political revolution in Russia. In Volume 2, he travels to the infamous convict mines of the Trans-Baikal region, and also discusses the extensive police surveillance system he observed while in Russia.


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The globalization of supermax prisons
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ISBN: 0813557429 9780813557427 9780813557410 0813557410 9780813557403 0813557402 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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“Supermax” prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980's, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of other inmates. Prisoners are usually restricted to their cells for up to twenty-three hours a day and typically have minimal contact with other inmates and correctional staff. Not only does the Federal Bureau of Prisons operate one of these facilities, but almost every state has either a supermax wing or stand-alone supermax prison. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons examines why nine advanced industrialized countries have adopted the supermax prototype, paying particular attention to the economic, social, and political processes that have affected each state. Featuring essays that look at the U.S.-run prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanemo, this collection seeks to determine if the American model is the basis for the establishment of these facilities and considers such issues as the support or opposition to the building of a supermax and why opposition efforts failed; the allegation of human rights abuses within these prisons; and the extent to which the decision to build a supermax was influenced by developments in the United States. Additionally, contributors address such domestic matters as the role of crime rates, media sensationalism, and terrorism in each country’s decision to build a supermax prison.


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Amin's soldiers : a caricature of upper prison
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ISBN: 9781908162465 1908162465 1306169410 9781306169417 9781904380962 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoop, Hampshire : Waterside Press,

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Penal culture and hyperincarceration
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ISBN: 1317082656 1409447308 9781409447306 9781409474838 1409474836 9781409447290 1409447294 9781317082651 9781315599892 9781317082644 9781138269774 1317082664 1315599899 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey

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What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia's leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and


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Prisons and prison systems : practices, types and challenges
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ISBN: 1624178510 9781624178511 9781624178504 1624178502 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Nova Publishers,


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Bureau of Prison's segregated housing practices
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ISBN: 1628085800 9781628085808 9781628085792 1628085797 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Novinka,


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La reforma penitenciaria en la historia contemporánea española
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ISBN: 8490319162 9788490319161 9788490317525 8490317526 Year: 2013 Publisher: Madrid


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Justice
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ISBN: 1783946199 9781783946198 Year: 2013 Publisher: [London]

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John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled "The Four Winds". For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of "The Island Pharisees" in 1904 that he published as John Galsworthy. His first play was The Silver Box, an immediate success when it debuted in 1906 and was followed by "The Man of Property" later that same year and was the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Whilst today he is far more well know as a Nobel Prize winning novelist then he was considered a playwright dealing with social issues and the class system. We publish here 'Justice' a great example of both his writing and his demonstration of how the class system worked at the time. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929, after earlier turning down a knighthood, and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 though he was too ill to attend. John Galsworthy died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead on January 31st 1933. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane.

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