Prisons | Weight Training Is a Valuable Rehabilitative Tool
About the author: Jon Marc Taylor is a prison journalist who has been incarcerated for the past 19 years.
The debate over the function and purpose of prisons is as old as the concept of incarceration. From the advent of the competing Auburn and Pennsylvania systems to Brockway’s Reformatory structure to the Medical Model evolving into the Just Deserts warehousing operation and the current “retributive justice” perspective, society has never settled on what it wants or expects from the act of imprisonment: deterrence, incapacitation, punishment, or...
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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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