Jail and Prison Overcrowding and Rehabilitative Justice Programs

Mental Health Among Jail and Prison Inmates

Previous studies provide insight into the mental health of jail and prison inmates, but this research does not compare the two groups of inmates. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article examines how the association between incarceration and self-reported mental health varies by facility type, net of an array of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. ...

Prison Abolition and Grounded Justice

This Article introduces to legal scholarship the first sustained discussion of prison abolition and what I will call a “prison abolitionist ethic.” Prisons and punitive policing produce tremendous brutality, violence, racial stratification, ideological rigidity, despair, and waste. Meanwhile, incarceration and prison-backed policing neither redress nor repair the very sorts of harms they are su...

Brown v. Plata: prison overcrowding in California.

California's prisons are currently designed to house approximately 85,000 inmates. At the time of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2011 decision in Brown v. Plata, the California prison system housed nearly twice that many (approximately 156,000 inmates). The Supreme Court held that California's prison system violated inmates' Eighth Amendment rights. The Court upheld a three-judge panel's order to dec...

Epidemiology of jail and prison suicides in Austria

Address: 1Community Mental Health Services, Caritas St. Poelten, Dr. Karl Renner Promenade 12, A-3100 St. Poelten, Austria, 2Division of Social Psychiatry, Vienna Medical University, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, 3Justizanstalt Mittersteig, Mittersteig 25, A-1050 Vienna, Austria and 4Department of Medical Statistics, Vienna Medical University, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Au...

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