Prisons | Private Prisons Are Abusive and Inefficient
About the author: Eric Bates is a staff writer for the Independent, an alternative weekly in Durham, North Carolina.
James Neal is a short, muscular man with close-cropped hair who has spent the past twelve years behind bars for armed robbery. He is also one of the most valuable commodities to trade hands in Youngstown, Ohio, since the steel industry abandoned the city more than a decade ago. In 1997 Neal was among the first “loads” of inmates bused from the District of Columbia to a new prison run by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the world’s...
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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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