SECTION I. THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF PRISONS Chapter 1. The Rationale for Imprisonment

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Chapter 10

• Looking Toward the Future

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Overcrowded Prisons, Drugs, Laws, and Race

• 7 million Americans under correctional
  supervision 2 million in prison
• Rate of imprisonment is going up crime rates are
  going down
• No relationship between crime rates and
  imprisonment rates
• Effects on prison population
• Harsher sentencing, parole and probation
  revocations, deinstitutionalization of the
  mentally ill, War on Drugs

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Opportunity Costs

• Comparison between education and corrections
  spending
• Link between lack of education and crime?

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Private Prisons, Private Profits

• Build and manage contracts
• Evaluations are mixed
• Problem of bait and switch
• Housing violent offenders in unsuspecting host
  states

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The Super Max Prison

• 57 super max in 1997
• Used inappropriately for mentally ill inmates?
• Evaluation showed higher rates of violence after
  prisoners were sent to super max
• States have legal right to send prisoners to
  super max without due process
• Abu Ghraib?
• Stanford Prison Experiment, go to
  http//www.prisonexp.org/
• Is prison, by nature, dehumanizing?

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Cross Sex Supervision

• Majority of officers in some states womens
  prisons are men
• Sexual misconduct occurs in both mens and
  womens prisons
• Exploitive elements in womens prisons

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A New Era of Prison History (1 of 2)

• 71 feel that many people in prison are drug
  addicts and need treatment
• ReEntry
• 650,000 people released each year back to
  community
• Recidivism 67
• Removing civil disabilities
• Factors in success job, family, housing, drug
  free

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A New Era of Prison History (2 of 2)

• Alternatives to Prison
• 40/day prison 2.50/day probation
• Examples of alternatives
• Drug courts
• Repealing mandatory minimum laws
• Electronic monitoring