incarcerates substantially more people than any other country; in the last 35 years, the U.S. prison population has grown by 700%. The main criticism of prison reform movements is that they do not seek to dismantle violent systems or substantially alter the root causes of incarceration, but ...
Floating jails were used to house convicts spilling out of Britain’s overcrowded prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries. Conditions were appalling.
In a correlative study, I explore juridical topoi in reformist and fictive texts familiar to republican Philadelphians. My analysis assumes a public sphere of writers and readers: while late eighteenth-century prison reforms and fictions came out of separate signifying systems, there was considerable...
This situation highlights the difficulty of introducing radical reform in a democracy with elections every three years. 90% of democratic countries have four or five-year terms which give governments more time to make changes. And the prison population could be reduced by 50% within five years. ...
This situation highlights the difficulty of introducing radical reform in a democracy with elections every three years. 90% of democratic countries have four or five-year terms which give governments more time to make changes. And the prison population could be reduced by 50% within five years. ...
Prison newspapers was not a new concept. In 1800 attorneyWilliam Keteltaswas incarcerated in debtor’s prison; while there, he started his own newspaper,New Hope, which was“a newspaper calling for prison reform and the abolition of imprisonment for debt.” ...
prison system expanded eight-fold and solitary confinement units contained prisoner resistance the concessions were rolled back and the courts soon made rulings like Turner v. Safley,[2] and laws like the Post Litigation Reform Act (PLRA)[3] were enacted, that in effect reinstated the courts’...
First, the importance of Indigenous women with lived experience in prison to lead and direct policy making to ensure processes of reform seek to listen and empower First Nations women in prison. Second, the need to urgently decarcerate First Nations mothers and in doing so, listen and respond ...