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Criminals --- Imprisonment --- Rehabilitation --- Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States --- Imprisonment - United States

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This text builds on and extends some of the contemporary issues of women in prison, minorities, and the historical path to modern prisons, as well as the social influences on prison reform.

Imprisonment - United States. --- Imprisonment -- United States. --- Prisoners - United States. --- Prisoners -- United States. --- Prisons - United States. --- Prisons -- United States. --- Imprisonment --- Prisons

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'Indefinite' is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael L. Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategies prisoners use to endure it, and the deputies who use race to control prisoners and the kinds of experiences prisoners had.

Imprisonment. --- Jails. --- Prisoners. --- Jails - United States --- Prisoners - United States --- Imprisonment - United States --- Jails --- Prisoners --- Imprisonment

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Imprisonment --- Social aspects --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Imprisonment - United States. --- Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States.

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McShane explains the controversies and issues surrounding not only the development of corrections systems in America but the most enduring problems they face. She utilizes a systems view that incorporates the external and internal factors that effect how prisons operate. Attempts to resolve the continuing political, economic, and philosophic dilemmas of incarceration involve complex motives and competing interests that are described in detail. Related legislation, law cases, and social trends are also analyzed. Students will be aided by study questions, supporting web site information and refe

Corrections -- United States. --- Imprisonment -- United States. --- Prisoners -- United States. --- Prisons -- United States. --- Punishment -- United States. --- Prisons --- Corrections --- Imprisonment --- Punishment --- Prisoners --- Legal status, laws, etc