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Annual report of the Bureau of Prisons of Massachusetts ...

Annual report of the Bureau of Prisons of Massachusetts ...

Massachusetts. Bureau of Prisons

"Including reports upon all prison matters; with statistics of arrests and of criminal prosecutions for the year 1916-[1919] ...
Annual Report of the Bureau of Prisons of Massachusetts ...

Annual Report of the Bureau of Prisons of Massachusetts ...

Massachusetts. Bureau of Prisons

"Including reports upon all prison matters; with statistics of arrests and of criminal prosecutions for the year 1916-[1919] ...
Forensic Psychiatry: Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

Forensic Psychiatry: Fundamentals and Clinical Practice

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120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 Types of prisons and security Ian Cumming Prevalence of psychiatric disorder in prisons Basant K. Puri Suicide in prisons Amanda E. Perry Disability in prisons Colin Goble and Sally French Women in ...
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

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Massachusetts Reformatory Massachusetts Correctional Institution (Norfolk). ... 575 men's reformatory at Concord, 575–575 See also Massachusetts Correctional Institution (Concord) Mass incarceration, 734, 735, 803, 815 moral impropriety, ...
Private Prisons: Cons and Pros

Private Prisons: Cons and Pros

Charles H. Logan

The work examines ten sets of issues, including the propriety, cost, security, and quantity of prisons, to set out a strong case for the viability of proprietary prisons.
"Out of the Mouth of Hell": Civil War Prisons and Escapes

"Out of the Mouth of Hell": Civil War Prisons and Escapes

Frances Harding Casstevens

"This work is divided into two sections--the Federal prisons and the Confederate prisons.
Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism: Critical Issues in ...

Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism: Critical Issues in ...

Andrew Silke

This volume provides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons.
The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

The Globalization of Supermax Prisons

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Featuring essays that look at the U.S.-run prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanemo, this collection seeks to determine if the American model is the basis for the establishment of these facilities and considers such issues as the support or ...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime.
Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia

Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia

Mitchel P. Roth

Examines the diversity of prisons and prison systems throughout the world, allowing readers to better understand this integral part of the criminal justice system.
Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality

Privatizing Prisons: Rhetoric and Reality

Professor Adrian L James, Professor

This book makes public, for the first time, a full account of the development of the privatization of prisons, centred on the only full-scale empirical study yet to have been undertaken in Britain.
Social Policies for Children

Social Policies for Children

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Lisa D. Bastian and Bruce M. Taylor, "Young Black Male Victims," Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief (December 1994), p. i; and Alfred Blumstein, " Prisons," in James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia, eds, Crime (San Francisco: ICS  ...
A profile of the working poor

A profile of the working poor

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Free from BLS, to keep you informed The Bureau's series of issues papers provides you with succinct, up-to-the-minute background data in a readily ...
The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System

The Prison and the Factory: Origins of the Penitentiary System

Dario Melossi

An examination and interpretation of the development of modern prisons in England and Europe from 1550 to 1850, a study of Italian prison development, and of American prisons from colonial times to 1930.
Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration ...

A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration ...

Ernest Drucker

Ernest Drucker’s A Plague of Prisons takes the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has ...
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information ...

Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information ...

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For discussion of Foucault's refusal of indignation in the GIP context, see the provocative analysis by Nancy Luxon in chapter 11 of this volume. Ibid. Foucault, “Enquête sur les prisons: brisons les barreaux du silence” (1971), FDE1, no.
Investigation of the New York State prisons

Investigation of the New York State prisons

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Committee on State Prisons

This 1883 text contains materials from hearings which were held in response to allegations that a number of prisoners in the state had lost their lives as a result of brutal and inhuman treatment related to the system of contract labor.
Massachusetts: The History of Massachusetts Colony, 1620-1776

Massachusetts: The History of Massachusetts Colony, 1620-1776

Roberta Wiener

Presents a history of Massachusetts, from colonization to becoming the sixth state to approve the United States Constitution in 1788.
Public Documents of Massachusetts

Public Documents of Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Concord (Massachusetts Reformatory). NOV. 5, 1903. To Mr. Joseph F. Scott, Superintendent, Massachusetts Reformatory, Concord Junction, Muss. Drar Sir ... Mr. Frederick Winsor, Head Master, Middlesex School, Concord, Mass. Drar Sir ...
Massachusetts Encyclopedia

Massachusetts Encyclopedia

Jennifer Herman

MASSACHUSETTS ENCYCLOPEDIA is the definitive reference work on Massachusetts ever published.
United States Congressional serial set

United States Congressional serial set

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Chief, Thomas Morrison, 1443 S street. Bureau of Rolls and Library. — Chief, Andrew Hussey Allen, The Maury. Bureau of Appointments. — Chief, Robert Brent Moslier, 2418 Fourteenth street. J'assport Bureau. — Chief, Gaillard Hunt, 1711 ...
Public Documents of Massachusetts: Being the Annual Reports ...

Public Documents of Massachusetts: Being the Annual Reports ...

Massachusetts

To Mr. JOSEPH F. SCOTT, Superintendent, Massachusetts Reformatory, Concord Junction, Mass. DEAR SIR: ——-The State Board of Health received from you, on Oct. 17, 1903, a communication stating that you have recently made tests near ...
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts

Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives ... 1 The book in your hands is the record of one legislature (Massachusetts) for one year (1764— 1765 ) during the decade and a half before Lexington. It should, according to John ...
Annual Report

Annual Report

University of Michigan. Bureau of School Services

University of Michigan. Bureau of School Services. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF SCHOOL SERVICES Introduction The Board of Regents at their meeting in May, 1948, authorized the establishment of the Bureau of School Services ...
U.S. Census Bureau Contacts

U.S. Census Bureau Contacts

United States. Bureau of the Census

United States. Bureau of the Census. Geographic Concepts — continued Local Update of Census Addresses ................... .. Al Pfeiffer (GEO) .......................... ..763- 8630 Master Address File ............................................ .. Joel Sobel (GEO) ...
Quicklet on Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?

Quicklet on Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?

Nicole Bemboom

ABOUT THE BOOK Dr. Angela Y. Davis’ Are Prisons Obsolete? is a formative work about prison abolition. She explores and critiques the American penal system. The work is especially significant as the prison system continues to grow.

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