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Author | : California. Legislature. Senate. Select Committee on Mental Health |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Ex-convicts |
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"California spends about $10 billion a year on its prison system. But for all that money it has failed to make our communities safer while producing an abysmal 70 percent recidivism rate ... a hearing to investigate how improving access to mental health and substance abuse services for parolees, probationers and at-risk groups can result in lower incarceration and recidivism rates"--Page 1.
Author | : Matthew Epperson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190653094 |
Smart Decarceration is a forward-thinking, practical volume that provides concrete strategies for an era of decarceration. This timely work consists of chapters written from multiple perspectives and disciplines including scholars, practitioners, and persons with incarceration histories. The text grapples with tough questions and builds a foundation for the decarceration field.
Author | : Heather Marie Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Prisoners |
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This study will investigate strategies to reduce overcrowding in California correctional facilities. Many of the facilities are operating at 200% capacity with a majority of offenders housed in gymnasiums, day rooms, and other public areas in the facility. The operation of correctional facilities at more than capacity increases fiscal costs, social costs, and security threats within the facility. In order to reduce the correctional population, California must address its high non-violent recidivism rate. To address this problem I investigate four U.S. state correctional departments and determine that they have successful program delivery approaches for both substance abuse and employment programs. Many of the programs have helped reduce recidivism rates to below the national average. After proposing and evaluating four policy alternatives, I recommend that California initiate an offender program auditing division to evaluate correctional programs for monetary efficiency and program effectiveness in reducing recidivism.
Author | : Kevin Wehr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135093113 |
This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison system.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Crime |
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Author | : Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (San Francisco, Calif.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Imprisonment |
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Author | : Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780309298018 |
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than the rates in Western Europe and other democracies. The U.S. prison population is largely drawn from the most disadvantaged part of the nation's population: mostly men under age 40, disproportionately minority, and poorly educated. Prisoners often carry additional deficits of drug and alcohol addictions, mental and physical illnesses, and lack of work preparation or experience. The growth of incarceration in the United States during four decades has prompted numerous critiques and a growing body of scientific knowledge about what prompted the rise and what its consequences have been for the people imprisoned, their families and communities, and for U.S. society. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines research and analysis of the dramatic rise of incarceration rates and its affects. This study makes the case that the United States has gone far past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by social benefits and has reached a level where these high rates of incarceration themselves constitute a source of injustice and social harm. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines policy changes that created an increasingly punitive political climate and offers specific policy advice in sentencing policy, prison policy, and social policy. The report also identifies important research questions that must be answered to provide a firmer basis for policy. This report is a call for change in the way society views criminals, punishment, and prison. This landmark study assesses the evidence and its implications for public policy to inform an extensive and thoughtful public debate about and reconsideration of policies.
Author | : Hadar Aviram |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0520386124 |
"The COVID-19 disaster in California's prisons stands out as the worst medical prison catastrophe in the state's history. Three-quarters of the state's prison population was infected; 264 incarcerated people and 50 staff members died. In Fester, authors Hadar Aviram and Chad Goerzen expose the COVID-19 correctional experience through hundreds of first-person accounts, months of courtroom observations, years of carefully collected quantitative COVID-19 data, and a wealth of policy documents. Already vulnerable from decades of overcrowding and abysmal healthcare, California's prison population bore the brunt of the COVID-19 horror. Fester bears witness to the immense suffering we bring on ourselves and our fellow humans through dehumanization, fear, and ignorance, and stands as a monument for a brave coalition of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, family members and loved ones, advocates and activists, doctors and journalists, who worked to shed light on one of the darkest times in the Golden State's correctional system"--
Author | : Andrew J Dick |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1137564695 |
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories from the authors’ experiences “behind the wall” among California’s prison population, the authors challenge the nature of evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.
Author | : Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Alternatives to imprisonment |
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