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| | Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime. | | | In the United States, jails are usually operated under the jurisdiction of local (county) governments while prisons are operated under the jurisdiction of state or federal governments. | | | Prisons, prison systems, sentencing and imprisonment practices, and the use of capital punishment may all lead to controversy and debate. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison
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| | Prisons in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Individuals sentenced are usually remanded to a federal, state, or local prison with regard to the respective jurisdiction of the law violated. | | | The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two such facilities: USP (United States Penitentiary) Marion, formerly a Level 5 facility, and ADX Florence, which was built specifically as a super max facility. | | | In 2000, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,381,892 and overall, the United States imprisoned 2,071,686 persons |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_prison_population
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| | MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Prison |
| | One-fourth of all state and federal prisons in the United States are medium-security institutions. | | | In the United States and Canada, minors (individuals who have not reached the legal age of adulthood) are not sent to prisons with adults. | | | In the United States, the highest security-level facilities are super-max or maxi-maxi prisons. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761573083___79/Prison.html
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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics |
| | Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96, 10/98. | | | Correctional Populations in the United States, 1996, 4/99. | | | Correctional Populations in the United States, 1994, 7/96. |
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http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
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| | Human Rights Watch: Prisons |
| | Overcrowding contributed to the growth of private prisons: according to the Department of Justice privately-operated facilities held 5.5 percent of all state prisoners and 2.5 percent of federal prisoners. | | | Prisons remained overcrowded in 2000: twenty-two states and the federal prison system operated at 100 percent or more of their highest capacity. | | | Minority youths in the United States were significantly more likely to be sent to adult courts than their white counterparts. |
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http://www.hrw.org/prisons/united_states.html
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| | AEGiS-UPI: Prison rapes spreading deadly diseases |
| | Federal prisons would have to adopt these standards and state prisons could only opt out of them if their state legislature votes not to participate. | | | WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- Prison rape has become such a common occurrence in federal and state prisons across the United States that it could have deadly consequences for the inmate population as well as the public at large, experts in the field told United Press International. | | | The Act would require the Justice Department to conduct an annual review of prison rape to determine prisons where the incidence is unusually high. |
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http://www.aegis.com/news/upi/2002/UP020729.html
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| | Prisons |
| | An article that will trace the history of control unit prisons in the United States from their beginnings in the early 1970's to the situation in 1992, as a means to understanding their function within the prison system. | | | The Prison Legal News is a monthly newsletter edited by Washington State prisoner Paul Wright. | | | The prison today includes a reception center for new commitments, a parole violator unit, general population units, and a minimum security work crew unit. |
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http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053930
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| | Supermax - Psychology Central |
| | The term originated in the United States as a contraction of super-maximum, and the concept developed from the permanent lockdown of the Federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois dating from 1983 when two corrections officers at that prison were murdered by inmates in two separate incidents on the same day. | | | Supermax is the name used to describe "control-unit" prisons, the most secure prisons in the prison systems of the United States and other countries. | | | Supermax prisons are also known as SHU prisons (Security Housing Unit). |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Supermax
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| | Monthly Review July-August 2001 The Editors |
| | Following the Civil War in the United States most state prisons continued to be run on the New York model. | | | Research has shown that it is not the rate of sentencing to prison but the length of sentences inflicted that primarily accounts for the much higher incarceration rate in the United States in recent decades as compared with both its previous history and other developed capitalist states. | | | Table 2 illustrates this, showing a significant contrast between five states (all from the South) with exceptionally high prison rates that are also among the lowest in personal income per capita, and five states (all from the North) with exceptionally low incarceration rates that are also among the highest in personal income per capita. |
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http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701editr.htm
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| | Control Unit Prisons |
| | Prison officials, not the courts, ``sentence'' prisoners to SHU terms (Corwin, 1990: A1). | | | In a case brought by a prisoner in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at the California State prison in Sacramento, Chief Justice Karlton made it clear that prisoners are sent to the SHU for reasons that have nothing to do with discipline. | | | The ``lockdown'', or cell-confinement of all prisoners, was imposed on October 27, 1983. |
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http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html
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| | Prisons:Introduction |
| | The semantic somersaults of the prison and State bureaucracy serve a calculated and specific ideological function. | | | Officially it is maintained that there are no prisons in the United States. | | | The Social Functions of the Prisons in the United States |
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http://www.prop1.org/legal/prisons/aptheker.htm
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| | Renee Boje Legal Defense Fund |
| | An independent fact-finder for the United Nations has said sexual misconduct by prison guards is common in women's prisons in the United States. | | | Their use ``violates international standards and may be said to constitute cruel and unusual practices,'' she asserted, adding that there were ``large-scale violations'' in prisons in the United States. | | | She noted in her report that, according to Justice Department statistics, the United States has the largest number of prisoners of any nation in the world, with more than 43,000 women in custody. |
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http://www.reneeboje.com/prison.html
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| | Bad Subjects: The Prison Industrial Complex |
| | In many states it has become unclear whether the major party candidates are running for governor or chief public executioner. | | | Tarnation and the State of the Nation: A New Yorker’s Perspective | | | Rather, prisons have had an increasing symbolic function in the United States. |
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http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2000/2000-1-27-2.34PM.html
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| | MIAMI5 |
| | This describes Pelican Bay State Prison in California, one of the most notorious in the United States for its cruelty. | | | The privatization of prisons in the United States has become a lucrative business, something truly incredible. | | | The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legalizes these practices by adopting the exception: slavery and forced labor are not prohibited from being applied "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." |
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http://www.granma.cu/miami5/ingles/039.htm
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| | Locked Up in Land of the Free |
| | During the 1990s, the United States and Russia vied for the dubious position of the highest incarceration rate on the planet. | | | When he discusses crime and punishment with foreign colleagues, Coyle says, the United States is such an anomaly that it must often be left out of the discussion. | | | Today the United States imprisons at a far greater rate not only than other developed Western nations do, but also than impoverished and authoritarian countries do. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0601-01.htm
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| | PC26 |
| | Beyond prisons, even larger numbers of residents are under some kind of correctional custody, such as parole or probation, in which they are subject to special restrictions, monitoring, and swift imprisonment for crimes and violations of administrative rules. | | | The numbers involved in immigration imprisonment are tiny compared to the total population subjected to state and federal imprisonment between 1980 and the mid-1990s. | | | Nonetheless, since the mid-1970s, state and federal governments have adopted policies mandating greater use of imprisonment and less use of alternatives such as probation and parole (Donziger 1996, Miller 1996, Simon 1997). |
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http://www.newschool.edu/gf/publicculture/backissues/pc26/simon.html
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| | Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice |
| | Examines the current state of practice, law, and research with respect to privately operated prisons in the United States, at all levels of security. | | | Managing a Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization in the United States and the United Kingdom | | | Legal issues relevant to contracting for imprisonment, and Implications for federal prisons. |
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http://www.nicic.org/Library/014789
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| | Human Rights Watch: United States Prison: Torture / Mistreatment |
| | The United States is holding at least twenty-six persons as “ghost detainees” at undisclosed locations outside of the United States, Human Rights Watch said today, as it released a list naming some of the detainees. | | | Even as the U.S. Congress has passed a prohibition against the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, it is set to adopt legislation that would strip the judiciary’s ability to enforce the ban, Human Rights Watch warned today. | | | The detainees are being held indefinitely and incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel. |
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http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usai_torture
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| | Criminal Justice in America, 3rd Edition -- Links, Chp. 15--Prisons Today |
| | 1980 Prison Riot a Black Mark on State's History An examination of the 1980 riot at New Mexico State Prison. | | | Federal Bureau of Prisons Home page for the U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Prisons. | | | Ohio Resources A listing of resources for prisoners released in Ohio. |
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http://www.crf-usa.org/links/cja/cja_ch15.htm
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| | ACU Web Links - Prison Privatization |
| | Prison Privatization: Don't be a prisoner to empty promises | | | Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice. | | | Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons, Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 14, 2001 (PDF) |
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http://www.afscme.org/private/aculink3.htm
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| | Vipassana Meditation Courses In Prisons |
| | Further information on is available in the form of prison course fact sheet. | | | Following the establishment of this technique in the prisons of India, Vipassana courses have been sucessfully conducted in the prison facilities of Taiwan as well as the United States. | | | Despite three sucessful courses, one for police officers and two for prisoners, no further prison courses were taught for almost 15 years. |
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http://www.dhamma.org/prisons.htm
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| | ESP :: Eastern State Penitentiary Website |
| | Philadelphia Inquirer Offers Glowing Review of Arts at Eastern State Noting that Eastern State Penitentiary "has proved to be an unusually flexible and effective setting for all sorts of art projects," since it's opening eleven years ago. | | | Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Expands Hours To Seven Days a Week. | | | 1945 Prison Escape Tunnel Found A secret tunnel that led twelve prisoners to freedom sixty-one years ago has been located and filmed by archaeologists at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site. |
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http://www.easternstate.org
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| | CAPITAL PUNISMENT FAQS FROM ASC'S CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY DIVISION |
| | Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-1363 (US Government) Unit D PO Box 33 Terre Haute, INDIANA 47808 | | | Address of Death Row Units in the U.S. Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:06:25 -0500 From: Rick Halperin | | | I ask you to look at this and submit any additions, corrections, etc. If you know the phone number, fax number and an email address of these facilities, please submit them to me. I will then make the changes, and publish a complete directory/listing for the network. |
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http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/faq/address.html
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