Imprisonment and prisoner re-entry in Australia

Imprisonment in Australia: The Remand Population

How to Prevent Prisoner Re-entry Programs From Failing: Insights From Evidence-Based Corrections

AT ONE POINT in our history, nobody would have imagined releasing a prison inmate into society with little supervision or support. As Simon (1993) shows, well into the 1950s, such a practice would have been unthinkable. From the implementation of parole as a widespread correctional policy, a key component of release from prison was securing employment. It was assumed that offenders would be "di...

The prisoner's prisoner: the theme of voluntary imprisonment in the staff of correctional facilities.

The staff of correctional facilities voluntarily work in prisons. It seems plausible that the professionals, officers, and administrators engaged in such employment may have unconscious feelings of a desire or need for punishment. This topic does, in fact, appear common in the jokes and casual conversation in such facilities, perhaps indicating such an underlying theme. Indeed, those employees ...

Correctional Officer Rating of Prisoner Adjustment on Entry to Prison

The aim of this longitudinal research was to assess and monitor adjustment (operationalised in terms of anxiety) of 60 prisoners as they entered prison and one month later. Results confirmed very high levels of anxiety on admission, which reduced after one month, but still remained significantly higher than adult population norms. Given that Correctional Officers (COs) play an integral role in ...

Imprisonment

So many medical men in Government service in India of all grades are concerned in prison administration that the publication of this little paper-bound volume by Col. Barker will be very welcome. It is a presentation of the present position with regard to Indian prisons, and a suggestion for future policy and improvements, based on the author's long experience of prison administration in the Ce...