Rethinking America's Correctional Policies

Informationen zum Autor By Anne S. Douds and Eileen M. Ahlin Klappentext This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system. Zusammenfassung This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward! commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionSection I: Pre-IncarcerationChapter One: Plea Bargaining and Using Children to Coerce Cooperation Chapter Two: Children at Arrest Chapter Three: An Alford Plea Conundrum Section II: IncarcerationChapter Four: Time Fades to GreyChapter Five. The Yard Ball Paradox Before Time Turns GreyChapter Six. Vernon Can t Read: Prison EducationChapter Seven: Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle: Mental Health and Psychopharmacology Chapter Eight: Abe s AbscessChapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or Indifferently Deliberate: How the Slow Pace of Prison Health Care Killed MatthewChapter Ten: End of Life CareSection III: Post-IncarcerationChapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to NowhereChapter Twelve: Get a J-O-BChapter Thirteen: Burned Bridges Conclusion: RAP ing Up

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Anne S. Douds is lecturer of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg and former trial lawyer. Eileen M. Ahlin is assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.

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This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system.

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Introduction Section I: Pre-Incarceration Chapter One: Plea Bargaining and Using Children to Coerce Cooperation Chapter Two: Children at Arrest Chapter Three: An Alford Plea Conundrum Section II: Incarceration Chapter Four: Time Fades to Grey Chapter Five. The Yard Ball Paradox - Before Time Turns Grey Chapter Six. Vernon Can't Read: Prison Education Chapter Seven: Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle: Mental Health and Psychopharmacology Chapter Eight: Abe's Abscess Chapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or Indifferently Deliberate: How the Slow Pace of Prison Health Care Killed Matthew Chapter Ten: End of Life Care Section III: Post-Incarceration Chapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to Nowhere Chapter Twelve: Get a J-O-B Chapter Thirteen: Burned Bridges Conclusion: RAP'ing Up