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Aging Behind Prison Walls

Author : Tina Maschi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544251
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Aging Behind Prison Walls written by Tina Maschi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, more than 200,000 men and women over age fifty are languishing in prisons around the United States. It is projected that by 2030, one-third of all incarcerated individuals will be older adults. An already overcrowded and underserved prison system is straining to manage the needs of incarcerated older adults with growing frailty and health concerns. Separated from their families and communities despite a low risk of recidivism, incarcerated older adults represent a major social-justice issue that reveals the intersectional factors at play in their imprisonment. How do the people aging in prison understand their life experiences? In Aging Behind Prison Walls, Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. They explore the transferable resiliencies and coping strategies used by incarcerated aging adults to make meaning of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. The book draws on extensive quantitative and qualitative research as well as national datasets. It features rich narrative case studies that present stories of trauma, coping, and well-being. Based on the data, Maschi and Morgen present a solution-focused caring-justice framework in order to understand and transform the individual- and community-level structural factors that have led to and perpetuate the aging-in-prison crisis. They offer concrete proposals—at the community and national policy levels—to address the pressing issues of incarcerated elders.

Old Behind Bars

Author : Jamie Fellner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564328595
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Old Behind Bars written by Jamie Fellner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommendations -- Methodology -- Older prisoners -- Why the aging prison population? -- Conditions of confinement -- Aging bodies, soaring costs -- Release from prison, dying in prison -- When is imprisonment no longer justified? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Additional tables.

The Older Prisoner

Author : Diete Humblet
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303060120X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Older Prisoner written by Diete Humblet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age. Through an ethnographical study of male and female older prisoners in two Belgian prison settings, one in which older prisoners are integrated and one in which they are segregated, it informs debates and seeks to recognise ageist discourse, attitudes, practices in prison. The Older Prisoner seeks to situate the older prisoner from both a penological and gerontological perspective, organised around the following broad themes: the construction of the older prisoner, the physical prison world, the social prison world, surviving prison and giving meaning. The book allows readers to navigate between contrasting perspectives and voices rather than reinforcing traditional narratives and prevailing discourses on the older prisoner. In doing so, it hopes to open up a broader dialogue on ageing and punishment. It also offers insights into the concept of meaning in life as an analytical tool to study prisoners.

Aging Prisoners

Author : Ron H. Aday
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aging Prisoners written by Ron H. Aday and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of elderly prisoners is growing. This book provides a review and analysis of the issues that this population presents to correctional systems, covering the medical, gerontological, psychological and social aspects of aging in place in prison. Other topics covered inlcude: -- the current state of U.S. prisons, crime patterns among the elderly, problems associated with long-term inmates, the treatment of older women prisoners, and the possibility of an elderly justice system.

Public Health Behind Bars

Author : Robert Greifinger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387716955
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Public Health Behind Bars written by Robert Greifinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Health Behind Bars From Prisons to Communities examines the burden of illness in the growing prison population, and analyzes the impact on public health as prisoners are released. This book makes a timely case for correctional health care that is humane for those incarcerated and beneficial to the communities they reenter.

Aging in Prison

Author : Martha Henderson Hurley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611638479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Aging in Prison written by Martha Henderson Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aging in Prison: The Integration of Research and Practice, author Martha Hurley takes an in-depth look at the complex issues associated with housing long-term and elderly prisoners. The book comes at a time when the number of prisoners aged 55 or older is growing at a faster pace than the rest of the prison population. Growth in this population was an unintended after-effect of "Get Tough" legislation from the 1980s and 90s. Concerns stem from the fact that such harsh sentencing practices have resulted in an increasingly elderly prison population, caused correctional costs to skyrocket, produced greater legal challenges based on conditions of confinement, and triggered inconsistencies in the delivery of medical and mental health services to long-term and elderly prisoners. The book explores the costs and benefits of keeping aging inmates incarcerated during their most medically expensive yet least crime-prone years. The text concludes by examining what can be done in terms of policy options, sentencing options and programs to improve the outlook for this aging inmate population and proposes that a philosophical 'Ethic of Care' approach be implemented to guide both present and future practices. This book is essential reading for all students, practitioners, and advocates involved with or studying correctional practice. This second edition updates the first. "Aging in Prison condenses an avalanche of statistical detail into a thoroughly informative presentation that catalogs options for policy and practice in the context of 'an ethic of care.'" -- CHOICE Magazine "It is a must-read for those who deal with the elderly corrections population, such as health care providers and correctional staff, as well as academics, legislatives and other professionals who want to learn about the issues that this population faces and what should be considered as good, ethical care." -- Corrections Today "Aging in Prison provides a promising overview of general correctional issues that are clearly magnified for aging prison populations." -- Criminal Justice Review PowerPoint slides are available to professors upon adoption of this book. Download a sample of the full 110-slide presentation here. If you have adopted the book for a course, contact [email protected] to request the PowerPoint slides.

Literacy Behind Prison Walls

Author : Karl Haigler
Publisher : Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Literacy Behind Prison Walls written by Karl Haigler and published by Center. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of reports that look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey. This report provides an in-depth look at the literacy skills of prisoners incarcerated in state and federal prisons. Contents: -Executive Summary Chapter 1: Overview Chapter 2: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Literacy Skills of America's Prisoners Chapter 3: Experiences Before Prison Chapter 4: Experiences Unique to Prison Life Chapter 5: Recidivism and Literacy Chapter 6: Comparing Literacy Practices and Self-Perceptions of the Prison and Household Populations.

A World Apart

Author : Cristina Rathbone
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430553
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A World Apart written by Cristina Rathbone and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America. The picture that emerges is both astounding and enraging. Women reveal the agonies of separation from family, and the prevalence of depression, and of sexual predation, and institutional malaise behind bars. But they also share their more personal hopes and concerns. There is horror in prison for sure, but Rathbone insists there is also humor and romance and downright bloody-mindedness. Getting beyond the political to the personal, A World Apart is both a triumph of empathy and a searing indictment of a system that has overlooked the plight of women in prison for far too long. At the center of the book is Denise, a mother serving five years for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. Denise’s son is nine and obsessed with Beanie Babies when she first arrives in prison. He is fourteen and in prison himself by the time she is finally released. As Denise struggles to reconcile life in prison with the realities of her son’s excessive freedom on the outside, we meet women like Julie, who gets through her time by distracting herself with flirtatious, often salacious relationships with male correctional officers; Louise, who keeps herself going by selling makeup and personalized food packages on the prison black market; Chris, whose mental illness leads her to kill herself in prison; and Susan, who, after thirteen years of intermittent incarceration, has come to think of MCI-Framingham as home. Fearlessly truthful and revelatory, A World Apart is a major work of investigative journalism and social justice.

Aging Prisoners

Author : Ron H. Aday
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780313039065
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Aging Prisoners written by Ron H. Aday and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive analysis of the aging offender and prisoner in the criminal justice system.

Behind Prison Walls

Author : Corvalis G. Hodges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441510952
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Behind Prison Walls written by Corvalis G. Hodges and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Within Prison Walls

Author : Thomas Mott Osborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within Prison Walls written by Thomas Mott Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aging Behind Bars

Author : Ryan S. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Behind Bars written by Ryan S. King and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Forgotten Men

Author : Margaret E. Leigey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813569494
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Men written by Margaret E. Leigey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account of a group of aging inmates imprisoned for at least twenty years, with virtually no chance of release. These men make up one of the most marginalized segments of the contemporary U.S. prison population. Considered too dangerous for rehabilitation, ignored by prison administrators, and overlooked by courts disinclined to review such sentences, these prisoners grow increasingly cut off from family and the outside world. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-five such prisoners, Leigey gives voice to these extremely marginalized inmates and offers a look at how they struggle to cope. She reveals, for instance, that the men believe that permanent incarceration is as inhumane as capital punishment, calling life without parole “the hard death penalty.” Indeed, after serving two decades in prison, some wished that they had received the death penalty instead. Leigey also recounts the ways in which the prisoners attempt to construct meaningful lives inside the bleak environment where they will almost certainly live out their lives. Every state in the union (except Alaska) has the life-without-parole sentencing option, despite its controversial nature and its staggering cost to the taxpayer. The Forgotten Men provides a much-needed analysis of the policies behind life-without-parole sentencing, arguing that such sentences are overused and lead to serious financial and ethical dilemmas.

Substance Use Disorders and Addictions

Author : Keith Morgen
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483370585
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Substance Use Disorders and Addictions written by Keith Morgen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a decade of research and theory, Substance Use Disorders and Addictions examines co-occurring psychiatric disorders as the norm with substance use disorders and addictions. With more than 20 years of experience in the field as a clinician, a researcher, a program developer, and an instructor, Keith Morgen encourages a holistic approach to working with individuals, using a single case example throughout the text to encourage the sequential application of concepts to co-occurring disorders. With DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, the 2014 ACA code of ethics, and 2016 CACREP standards integrated throughout, readers will benefit from this applied and cutting-edge introduction to the field.

Texas Tough

Author : Robert Perkinson
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429952774
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Texas Tough written by Robert Perkinson and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.

Elderhood

Author : Louise Aronson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620405482
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Elderhood written by Louise Aronson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."

Incarceration and Older Women

Author : Lois Presser
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529231671
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Incarceration and Older Women written by Lois Presser and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generativity or ‘giving back’ is regarded as a common life stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time, this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social relationships of older imprisoned women. In-depth interviews with 29 female prisoners in the south-eastern United States show that older women both engage in generative behaviours in prison and also wish to do so upon their release. As prisoners continue to age, the US finds itself at a crossroads on prison reform, with potential decarceration beginning with older prisoners. The COVID-19 pandemic has led many to consider how to thrive under difficult circumstances and in stressing the resilience of older incarcerated women, this book envisions what this could look like.