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The English Prisons
There is not much stress on man's rebellion against God and the reforming power of Jesus Christ is not brought out. Reform is nevertheless considered with great humanity and sympathy, never clinically. Convicts (ugly word) are individuals varying greatly, and quite like ourselves (awful thought). Mr. Howard has greater insights on reform than on punishment, not that they are opposed to each oth...
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Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...
متن کاملThe Economics of Private Prisons
In the two decades following 1980, the United States incarceration rate more than tripled. State officials carrying out stricter criminal justice measures faced increasingly crowded facilities and some turned to private companies to build or run their prisons. Recently, private prisons have become the focus of considerable attention as scandals resulted in major prison closings (e.g., Walnut Gr...
متن کامل[Health care in the prisons of the Kingdom. General Royal Ordinance of prisons of 1834].
In the 19th century, the concept of "prison health" began to make an appearance in Spanish legislation as an integral part of prison management. Thanks to a series of ideological and progressive principles in the same century, laws were decreed and regulated to address the need for adequate medical care for prisoners in Africa, Spain and the overseas territories. The most important of these was...
متن کاملControl and choice in English prisons: developing health-promoting prisons.
The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sociologija
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0038-0318,2406-0712
DOI: 10.2298/soc0203223k