Most planning theories are based on the assumption that there is a homogenous public interest. However, agencies driven by multiple and conflicting interests in practice. This article conceptualises empirically investigates these an “extreme case” of active land policy: Dutch state selling Amsterdam’s Bijlmer prison. Three types dilemmas or arose prison case examined: prioritising price social ...

The study investigated the effects of time spent in prison and quality of life before prison on male, federally sentenced prisoners’ adaptations to imprisonment, controlling for sentence length and prison security level. Data consisted of responses on a self-administered survey completed by 712 prisoners. Findings tended to support the independent effects of the indigenous (deprivation) and imp...

The article by Michael S. Krelstein, MD, which presents the results of a nationwide survey examining the role of mental health professionals in the inmate disciplinary process, is a significant contribution to the correctional mental health literature. Dr. Krelstein succinctly summarizes the case law that has provided the framework for the prison disciplinary process. The Supreme Court’s curren...

objectives: hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is a major public health problem worldwide with serious complications. according to the importance of intravenous drug use (idu) as the main risk factor for hcv infection and transmission and prison as the main source of risky behaviors, this study conducted to define hcv infection and related risk factors in prison inmates with history of idu in is...

This case study interrogates the delivery of Shannon Trust literacy programme in a men’s category B London prison (HMP Wandsworth). includes an exploration libraries’ collaboration with Trust, and how library staff practically facilitate programme; from selecting prisoners to become mentors, finding willing learners, collecting feedback. also looks at some challenges faced by prison-based Libra...

PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...

minoo ’s ahriman is a term for discovering ahriman in the world of minoo: a world where it’s creatures are invisible, undesirable, and without a body . in this article, minoo’s ahriman in the avesta and the pahlavi texts are surveyed. in gahan, ahriman exists as the evil nature as opposed to the good nature that leads to his creation in the haftha. in new avesta the minavi existence continues w...

1 Corrections Management Quarterly, 2001, 5(1), 1–9 © 2001 Aspen Publishers, Inc. A persistently disruptive force in correctional facilities is prison gangs. Prison gangs disrupt correctional programming, threaten the safety of inmates and staff, and erode institutional quality of life. The authors review the history of, and correctional mechanisms to cope with prison gangs. A suppression strat...

We present an approach to simultaneously perform semantic segmentation and prepositional phrase attachment resolution for captioned images. The motivation for this work comes from the fact that some ambiguities in language simply cannot be resolved without simultaneously reasoning about an associated image. If we consider the sentence “I shot an elephant in my pajamas”, looking at the language ...