Three anonymous women open up about how pen pal programs lead them to falling in love with inmates.
Changes in sentencing practices, coupled with a decrease in prison rehabilitation programs, have placed new demands on the U.S. parole system. Nearly 700,000 parolees are "doing time" on the streets. Most have been released to a parole system that provides few services and imposes conditions ...
Next point: many of us under our sentences already got our max time served, which means, legally the board has no authority to hold us past our maximum term, which means: a period grossly disproportionate to his or her individual culpability for the commitment offense. Case in point: the C...
In the problem, two suspects are arrested and questioned separately by police. If one accuses the other while the other remains silent, the accuser will go free and the silent party will go to jail for 10 years. If each accuses the other, both go to prison for five years. If both ...
However, the inmates were forced to remain silent. Administrators believed this code of silence would prevent prisoners from picking up bad attitudes and would promote their rehabilitation.The Eastern Penitentiary System at Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, opened its gates in 1829. The prison building was ...
Alexandria which ministers to both adult and teen-age former offenders including an employment initiative for teenagers. In addition, the prison system emphasizes intensive reentry training for ex-offenders, and parole and probation officers focusing on ex-offender rehabilitation as well as law ...
educational opportunities, and seek normalization through friendship, are less likely to re-offend. Inmates from county jails, state prisons, federal prisons, on death row, and in rehabilitation centers across the country have posted profiles. We also have prisoners listed from outside of the ...
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Societies use islands and prisons as sites for both punishment and rehabilitation. Those deemed “deviants” are gathered to both figurative and literal islands where broader society intends the processes of formative separation and reorientation to occur. For Greco-Roman island prisoners/exiles and ...
He was not interested in participating in any rehabilitation activities. From a rehabilitation perspective, such prisoners appear to have a relatively poor prognosis for the future, as a large proportion of them are primarily interested in repairing their condition and then ‘waiting out’ their ...