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Chapter 10

Chapter 10. Looking Toward the Future. Overcrowded Prisons, Drugs, Laws, and Race. 7 million Americans under correctional supervision; 2 million in prison Rate of imprisonment is going up; crime rates are going down No relationship between crime rates and imprisonment rates

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Chapter 10

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  1. Chapter 10 Looking Toward the Future

  2. Overcrowded Prisons, Drugs, Laws, and Race • 7 million Americans under correctional supervision; 2 million in prison • Rate of imprisonment is going up; crime rates are going down • No relationship between crime rates and imprisonment rates • Effects on prison population • Harsher sentencing, parole and probation revocations, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, War on Drugs

  3. Opportunity Costs • Comparison between education and corrections spending • Link between lack of education and crime?

  4. Private Prisons, Private Profits • “Build and manage” contracts • Evaluations are mixed • Problem of “bait and switch” • Housing violent offenders in unsuspecting host states

  5. The “Super Max” Prison • 57 super max in 1997 • Used inappropriately for mentally ill inmates? • Evaluation showed higher rates of violence after prisoners were sent to super max • States have legal right to send prisoners to super max without due process • Abu Ghraib? • Stanford Prison Experiment, go to http://www.prisonexp.org/ • Is prison, by nature, dehumanizing?

  6. Cross Sex Supervision • Majority of officers in some states’ women’s prisons are men • Sexual misconduct occurs in both men’s and women’s prisons • Exploitive elements in women’s prisons

  7. A New Era of Prison History (1 of 2) • 71% feel that “many” people in prison are drug addicts and need treatment • ReEntry • 650,000 people released each year back to community • Recidivism – 67% • Removing civil disabilities • Factors in success: job, family, housing, drug free

  8. A New Era of Prison History(2 of 2) • Alternatives to Prison • $40/day prison; $2.50/day probation • Examples of alternatives • Drug courts • Repealing mandatory minimum laws • Electronic monitoring

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