Prisons | The Prison System Works
About the author: Andrew Peyton Thomas is an attorney in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos.
Fox Butterfield of the New York Times regularly reports on what he sees as one of the great anomalies of the age: Incarceration rates are rising while crime rates are falling. An August 1998 article titled “Prison Population Growing Although Crime Rate Drops” was typical. Butterfield began, “The nation’s prison population grew by 5.2 percent in 1997, according to the Justice Department, even though crime...
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- Introduction
- Are Prisons Effective?
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How Should Prisons Treat Inmates?
- The Treatment of Inmates: An Overview
- Prisons Should Punish Inmates
- Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates
- Inmates Should Not Be Coddled
- Prisoners Should Not Have Access to Weight Training Facilities
- Weight Training Is a Valuable Rehabilitative Tool
- Violent Inmates Should Not Be Placed in Super-Max Prisons
- Should Prisons Be Privatized?
- Should Prisons Use Inmate Labor?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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