Health and Incarceration
Health and Incarceration

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0309287715

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Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.

Detention Castles of Stone and Steel
Detention Castles of Stone and Steel

Author: James C. Garman

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781572333543

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The advent of the Enlightenment ignited many changes in the philosophical landscape of both the young American republic and its European counterparts.

The Prison Labor Problem in Kansas
The Prison Labor Problem in Kansas

Author: United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration

Publisher:

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13:

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"ATTACHED HEREWITH IS A REPORT ON THE PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL Institutions OF THE STATE OF KANSAS TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTS AFFECTING SPECIAL PHASES OF THE PROBLEM THERE. IN 1935, KANSAS ADOPTED A LAW PROHIBITING THE MANUFACTURE OF THE PRISON PRODUCTS FOR SALE ON THE OPEN MARKET, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BINDER TWINE, FARM PRODUCTS, AND AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES AND ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE MANUFACTURED BY INMATES FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT. VARIOUS MAINTENANCE INDUSTRIES, THE MINING OF COAL, AND THE OPERATION OF A LARGE PRISON FARM, ALL FOR STATE-USE, ABSORB MANY PRISONERS AT THE STATE PRISON AT LANSING; AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM SUPPLEMENTING MAINTENANCE AND STATE-USE INDUSTRIES KEEP THE INMATES AT THE REFORMATORY AT HUTCHINSON EMPLOYED., THE WOMEN CONVICTS AT THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL FARM ARE ENGAGED IN GARDENING, CANNING, SEWING AND MAINTENANCE WORK. THERE ARE SOME IDLE PRISONERS WHO CAN BE ABSORBED IN THE FURTHER F THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND SOME STATE-USE INDUSTRIES WHICH CAN BE IMPROVED. ON THE WHOLE, HOWEVER, THE PRISON PROBLEMS OF KANSAS ARE NOT INDUSTRiAL"--[Cover letter to the President dated June 25, 1938].

Love Behind Bars
Love Behind Bars

Author: Jodie Sinclair

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1948924854

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The Powerful, Poignant Story of Love, Courage, and Redemption from Death Row, Where an Indomitable Woman Challenged Corruption in Order to Free her Husband When TV reporter Jodie Sinclair went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Death House at Angola, in 1981, she expected to report about the death penalty and leave. She never expected to fall in love. Billy Sinclair was an inmate at Angola, sent there for an accidental murder during a robbery gone wrong. After facing a trial which was skewed against him and being sentenced to death, he saw first-hand the corruption and abuse rife in the criminal justice system, and he began an unrelenting crusade for reform. When the pair married by proxy a year after meeting, Jodie took up Billy’s fight. From then on, she lived with one foot in the outside world and one in the complex and dehumanizing bureaucracy of the prison world. This incredible memoir tracks her heroic twenty-five-year fight to save her husband from dying in prison, the professional setbacks she suffered for marrying a prisoner, and a pardons scandal in which she wore a wire for the FBI to help her husband expose corruption in the criminal justice system leading all the way to the governor's office, which put a target on Billy's back. It is the uplifting true story of a woman who stood by her man, and in doing so, exposed the horrors of our criminal justice system and became a voice for all those who have loved ones behind bars.