Prisons | Providing Financial Incentives for Incarceration Is Unethical
About the author: C. Stone Brown is a Black history/political writer who resides in Philadelphia.
The United States of America has quietly become one of the world’s leaders in the rate of incarcerating its citizens. Federal and state prisons have reached the dubious milestone of having a million or more inmates in prison. That number does not even count America’s jail population, which according to the U.S. Justice Department is a record 490,442, double the jail population in the 1980s. The custodians of America’s penal systems have abandoned the idea of...
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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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