Rapidly expanding prison populations in California have brought a host of management
challenges. One in seven state prisoners is housed there. California spends more than $9 …

The vast majority of social scientists agree that race is “socially constructed.” Yet many
scholars of punishment and prisons still treat race as static, self-evident categories. One …

The current study aimed to enhance the understanding of how law enforcement agencies
collaborate with parole agencies and how they view police-parole partnerships. The data …

Purpose Over nearly six decades in prison, therapeutic communities (TCs) have waxed and
waned in California. While there have been dramatic and demonstrable sucess with some of …

The purpose of this qualitative empirical phenomenological study was to explore and
understand the lived experiences of prison volunteers who have witnessed the decline of …

Abstract The United States of America has been known as a melting pot-where equality is
hailed among the most sacred of doctrines and is written into the foundational documents of …

In 2003, the US Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which authorized
funding for state-level programs and accompanying research to respond to prison rape. This …