65. The Gender-Responsive Prison Expansion Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 332-337
Keyword(s):  
Prison Expansion

Nassriya Prison Expansion Nassriya, Iraq

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelina Johnston ◽  
George Baffoe
Keyword(s):  
Prison Expansion

Reentry Reconsidered: A New Look at an Old Question

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Travis ◽  
Joan Petersilia
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Child Welfare Policy ◽  
Prisoner Reintegration ◽  
Prison Expansion ◽  
New Strategies

Reflecting unprecedented prison expansion, the scale of prisoner reentry has reached new heights. Although the movement of individuals from prison to community is not new, a focus on the phenomenon of reentry at this time sheds light on the consequences of America's shifting sentencing policies, the changes in parole supervision, and the concentrated impact of removal and return of prisoners on disadvantaged communities. The profile of the current reentry cohort shows that prisoners are less prepared for reintegration and less connected to community-based social structures. Linkages between prisoner reentry and the related social policy domains of health policy, family and child welfare policy, workforce participation, civic participation, and racial disparities are examined to show the potential for more systematic reintegration policies. The article concludes with discussion of the implications of a reentry perspective for the development of new strategies for prisoner reintegration.

scholarly journals The Wrexham Titan prison and the case against prison expansion

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Luise Hart ◽  
Raphael Schlembach
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Complex ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Prison Expansion

The building of a new 'super prison' in Wrexham, North Wales has begun amidst a wider expansion of the penal industrial complex. Campaigns are mobilising nationally and locally against the project. This article examines the concerns surrounding what will become the United Kingdom's largest prison and argues that its construction is a symptom of a wider ideological attack on marginalised groups while also examining the case against prison expansion.

scholarly journals MAKING PUNISHMENT PAY

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hagan ◽  
Gabriele Plickert ◽  
Alberto Palloni ◽  
Spencer Headworth
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Inmate Population ◽  
Voter Approval ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Revenue Bonds ◽  
Prison Expansion

AbstractSociologists have neglected the politically channeled and racially connected role of leveraged debt in mass incarceration. We use qualitative and quantitative data from California, circa 1960–2000, to assess how Republican entrepreneurial leveraging of debt overcame contradictions between parochial preferences for punishment and resistance to paying taxes for building prisons. The leveraging of bond debt deferred and externalized the costs of building prisons, while repurposed lease revenue bonds massively enlarged and extended this debt and dispensed with the requirement for direct voter approval. A Republican-dominated punishment regime capitalized debt to build prisons in selected exurban Republican California counties with growing visible minority populations. We demonstrate that the innovative use of lease revenue bonds was the essential element that enlarged and extended funding of California prison construction by an order of magnitude that made this expansion a boom. With what Robert Merton called the consequences of imperious interest, this prison expansion enabled the imprisonment of an inordinately large and racially disproportionate inmate population.

The Whiteness of Watching

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Benjamin Stumpf ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Philosophy Of Race ◽  
War On Crime ◽  
Prison Studies ◽  
Prison Expansion

This article seeks to develop a concept I term surveillant citizenship, referring to a historically-emergent civic national and moral discourse that prescribes citizen participation in surveillance, policing, and law enforcement. Drawing on philosophy of race, surveillance studies, critical prison studies, and cultural theory, I argue that the ideological projects attached to the ‘War on Crime’ and the ‘War on Drugs’ sought to choreograph white social life around surveillant citizenship—manufacturing consent to police militarization, prison expansion, and mass incarceration, with consequences relevant to the future of antiracist strategy.

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