Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences [Paperback]

Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences,Second Edition, investigates and analyzes prisons--and the often undocumented costs of imprisonment for all involved.

Beginning with a short history of imprisonment in the U.S., the text covers all aspects of prison life, including a description of life in prison from the point of view of both inmates and officers, inmate rights, women's prisons, prison programs, and re-entry.

Rich pedagogical features help students absorb information, while end-of-chapter review questions stimulate lively class discussions. Quotations from inmates allow students to personalize the issues.

Offering a lucid, critical, yet balanced look at American prison life, this volume is ideal for courses on prisons and corrections.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Prisons: Then and Now
1. The Purpose and Function of Prisons
2. The Philadelphia and Auburn Models
3. 1900-1950s
4. 1960-1980s
-- New Expectations
-- Racial Politics
-- Drugs
-- Young Offenders
-- The Death of the Rehabilitative Era
5. 1980-Today
6. Prisons and Politics
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2: Explaining Incarceration
1. The Rise of Imprisonment
2. The United States Compared to the World
3. Comparing States' Rates of Incarceration
4. Incarceration and Race/Ethnicity
5. Explaining the Increase
-- Crime
-- Sentencing Changes
-- Increased Punitiveness
-- Increased Parole Revocations
-- The War on Drugs
-- The Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill
-- The Privatization of Prisons
6. Reversing the Trend
7. Conclusion
Chapter 3: The New Bastille
1. The Number and Types of Prisons
2. Federal and State Systems
-- State Prisons
3. Overcrowding
4. The Super-Max
5. Private Prisons
-- Proponents and Opponents of Privatization
-- Corrections Corporation of Aml3F