" PARLIAMENT AND PRISON REFORM."

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform∗

Since the 1970s, U.S. federal courts have issued court orders condemning state prison crowding. However, the impact of these court orders on prison spending and prison conditions is theoretically ambiguous because it is unclear if these court orders are enforceable. We examine states’ responses to court interventions and show that these interventions generate higher per inmate incarceration cos...

What works? --questions and answers about prison reform

Decline of the “little Parliament”: Juries and Jury Reform in England and Wales

INTRODUCTION The English jury evokes passionate and often extreme views. On the one hand, trial by jury is vigorously defended as an ancient right, a bastion of liberty, and a means whereby the ordinary person’s common sense views can inform decisions and contain the powers of government. On the other hand, the jury is regarded much more cynically as a costly, sometimes incompetent anachronism ...

Parliament

Disaster concentrates the mind wonderfully. The Shelton tragedy forced M.P.s to grapple with mental illness once more in Parliament's spring term after a long lull in which national economic troubles claimed their attention to the exclusion of almost all else. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, finally agreed ?and to be fair, without too much reluctance?to hold the Shelton inquiry in...

Identifying and predicting the correctional orientation of Trinidad and Tobago’s Correctional Officers: Implications for prison reform