Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections

ISBN-13: 9780820457673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 219 str.

Dejong, Christina

Opis

Is rehabilitation dead in American corrections? This socio-political analysis of the fifty-year history of Patuxent Institution, a treatment-oriented maximum security prison in Maryland, studies the organizational challenges faced by this unique American prison, and the social and political forces that work to ensure its survival.

O autorze

The Author: James R. Coldren, Jr. is the sixth president of the John Howard Association in Chicago, Illinois, a 103-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to improving the conditions of confinement in corrections facilities, as well as to fair, humane, and effective sentencing and correctional policies. Dr. Coldren received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in sociology from Rutgers University. He is an applied researcher in criminal and juvenile justice, and has worked in numerous research and educational capacities for the past several decades.