Short range abolitionist goals should focus on making the police accountable to the community. Police policies should be set by neighborhood representatives, police should be drawn from the communities they serve and police practices should be reviewed regularly by community groups. [28] Longer range...
According to the Department of Justice, prison should focus on providing just punishment, rehabilitation, and repairing damage to society. Where punitive policy fails to accomplish these goals, restorative justice should be put into practice. Restorative justice approaches resolve harm caused by crime ...
"Mental health is a keyword for the 21st century all over the world. The number of criminals with mental disorders is also increasing in China in recent years. Treatment and rehabilitation for them should be paid attention to," said Sun Lijuan, deputy secretary general of the local prison ass...
"Mental health is a keyword for the 21st century all over the world. The number of criminals with mental disorders is also increasing in China in recent years. Treatment and rehabilitation for them should be paid attention to," said Sun Lijuan, deputy secretary general of the local prison ass...
NY– the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Sanger had been shut down and arrested before for obscenity (she offered a booklet called “What Every Young Woman Should Know,” explaining the female reproductive system and several contraceptive methods). This time, the police leaned on her ...
rehabilitation process [3]. To help reduce drugs entering prisons via visitors, the visits could take place in partitioned rooms with more intimate searches on all visitors [17]. CSJ warns that manual searches are not effective enough and the frequency should be increased [15]. The ...
Before considering the evidence for coercive mobility’s effects on communities, one more very important negative force should be highlighted: the diminished state—human capital, in the words of sociol ogists—of most returning former prisoners. It is generally accepted that ha...
He said that these evaluations can and should be conducted outside of the county jail. “We’re turning our jails into asylums. And I can’t even say it’s the courts’ fault,” Nanos said. “It is society saying ‘What do we do with these people? Where are we going to put them...
“And the question there is, should they exist? And if they have to exist, how should they exist? I want people to care about those who are incarcerated. And the only way you can care about somebody is to see a connection to them, you have to have empathy.” She continues that, ...
While the last decade has seen a growth of support for harm reduction around the world, the availability and accessibility of quality harm reduction services in prison settings is uneven and continues to be inadequate compared to the progress achieved in