Studying Sites of Discipline: Critical Interpretive Fieldwork and the U.S. Prison System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Rachel Gould
Keyword(s):  
Prison System ◽  
The U.S

Ghana ThinkTank

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Christopher Robbins ◽  
Maria del Carmen Montoya ◽  
John Ewing
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Developed World ◽  
First World ◽  
The U.S

Ghana ThinkTank has been “Developing the First World” since 2006. We collect problems in the so-called developed world, and send them to think tanks we established in Cuba, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, El Salvador, and the U.S. prison system to analyze and solve. Our network continues to grow . . .

Book Review: The U.S. Federal Prison System

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-377
Author(s):  
Ben Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Prison System ◽  
Federal Prison ◽  
The U.S

Fears of Contagion, Strategies of Containment

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-59
Author(s):  
Robert T. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Prison Reform ◽  
Agricultural Enterprise ◽  
Reform Plan ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labor Camps ◽  
Work Model ◽  
The U.S

The first chapter offers an analysis of prison reform through the lens of sexualized containment, where elite northern reformers sought to replace the notorious 1940s prison farm and open dormitory system with the best practices of northern criminal justice and blended with a southern work model to create an efficient, business-oriented agricultural enterprise system. During the 1940s and 1950s, postwar criminologists employed metaphors of disease and contagion that warned that prison sex and sexual violence between men could spread from one prisoner to another. In the U.S. South, the practice of housing prisoners in labor camps and shared dormitories contributed to the metaphor of disease and contagion, a particular fear that the South’s open living spaces hastened the southern prison’s production of homosexuality. The chapter argues that such a Cold War–era reform plan stressed the social quarantine of prisoners through the adoption of the northern penitentiary’s design of cells and wings as a way to contain the sexual violence that occurred all too frequently in open southern dormitories. Such an external emphasis on prison space and containment had profound consequences, as it enhanced the spatial power and reach of an internal trusty where the prison system relied on prisoners as guards.

Book Review: The U.S. Federal Prison System

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Oleson
Keyword(s):  
Prison System ◽  
Federal Prison ◽  
The U.S

A Preliminary Investigation of the Intersection of Race and Disabilities among Inmates in the U.S. State Prison System

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-609
Author(s):  
Natasha A. Baloch ◽  
Wesley G. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Prison Population ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mental Disabilities ◽  
Data Set ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Inmate Population ◽  
Rehabilitation Services Administration ◽  
The U.S

The American prison system is overcrowded with minorities in general, and African Americans, in particular. The Department of Justice notes that more than 50% of the prison population have some type of mental disability. In this study, we examine the intersection between race and disabilities in the U.S. State prison system. Using the Rehabilitation Services Administration data set, the study highlights the prevalence and type of disabilities in the prison inmate population. Results demonstrate that African American inmates are overrepresented among inmates with disabilities, are more likely to have mental disabilities relative to physical disabilities, and these results hold for various types of mental disabilities including cognitive, psychosocial, and other mental disabilities. Study limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

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