Above all, prisons need vocational training which inmates to prepare for life outside the prison. They can learn practical skills such as computer programming, car maintenance and graphic design. In this way, they can be hired for a position that requires th...
prisoners would have to assume that they were being watched at any given moment, which would be the ultimate enforcer for obedience and compliance. The 20th-century French philosopher Michel Foucault realized that that model could be used not just for prisons but for every institution that seeks ...
When police stormed a Sao Paulo maximum-security prison lastWednesday, freeing more than 600...Jack Epstein
The captain directing was us essentially changed strategies: 1.) we would make little effort to keep the inmates form stealing massive quantities of food 2.) we would do much of the physical work ourselves in front of the inmates instead of asking them to work 3....
So state prisons send inmates to county jails, which were not designed to hold state prisoners for months as their trial dates drag on and on. Runion recalls another sheriff, years back, became so frustrated he put the jail’s state prisoners on a bus, drove them to the Arkansas ...
as in adult prisons, the inmates are told exactly what they must do and are punished for failure to comply. Actually, students in school must spend more time doing exactly what they are told than is true of adults in penal institutions. Another difference, of course, is that we put adults...
He is accused of using objects to rape the female inmates. Madilyn Harks is another inmate who has undergone genital surgery, yet sexually terrorizes women in women’s prisons. There will have to be a solution that respects women’s human rights and safety, such as placing them in secure ...
When they were transferred to another prison, they were able to freely move around and started telling people about their situation. “People in the prison were so friendly,” he says. “You’ve seen so many movies about prisons, and then even an African prison, but the people have mostly...
coronavirus is also roiling jails and prisons, where inmates say they face little to no protections and remain forced to live in close quarters. On Rikers Island, where the majority of those jailed are people of color, at least 365 inmates and 783 correctional staff hadtested positiveas of ...
As she grows her support group, she's also educating others. She travels to prisons, meeting with inmates and addresses police cadets so they can understand the victim's point of view. DONNA ONGSIAKO (speaking to police cadets in 2019): I got up and made it up the stairs...