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Prisons of the World : A Better Way
This book discusses the failings of the prison system in many countries and offers positive pointers for the future. It shows the way forward will be through initiatives such as Justice Reinvestment and in the Human Development model.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Prisons of the World -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The world of prisons -- Peterhead -- Brixton -- The final straw: 7 July 1991 -- Charting the way forward -- Encouraging public scrutiny -- Comment -- 3 Prisons of the world -- Canada and the United States: 35 years of progress? -- Pelican Bay, California -- Ashley Smith, Canada -- Comment -- 4 International Centre for Prison Studies -- What is this thing we call the prison? -- International Centre for Prison Studies -- Comment -- 5 Women: the forgotten minority | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 'Ill-adapted correctional policies borrowed from models designed for men' -- Correctional Service of Canada -- The numbers -- Prisons are primarily male institutions -- What this can mean in practice -- Gatesville, Texas -- El Salvador -- Australia -- Equal outcomes require different approaches -- Comment -- 6 The legacy of the Gulag -- Belarus: an unreconstructed outlier -- Moscow SIZO No. 2 (Butyrka) 1992 -- Moscow and Ryazan, 1993 -- Comment -- 7 European Committee for the Prevention of Torture -- The United Kingdom -- Committee for the Prevention of Torture -- Russia -- Kresty -- Chelyabinsk | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Zlatoust -- Comment -- 8 Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan -- Cambodia: coming out of Year Zero -- The director of prisons -- Prison T3, Phnom Penh -- P.J. Prison, Phnom Penh -- Takmao Prison, Kandal Province -- Kompong Cham Prison -- Prey Sar Prison -- Siem Reap Prison -- The situation in 2021 -- Postscript: Tuol Sleng -- Japan: the prison as a reflection of a society -- Fuchu Prison -- Tokyo Detention House -- The high proportion of elderly prisoners -- Prisoners under sentence of death -- Prison privatisation -- Comment -- 9 Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model? | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Two vignettes from contemporaneous notes -- Villahermosa Prison, Cali, Colombia, May 1995 -- La Planta Prison, Caracas, Venezuela, February 2000 -- Colombia -- Venezuela -- Guatemala -- El Salvador -- Violence unbounded -- Dominican Republic -- Comment -- 10 Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- Her Majesty's Prison Glendairy -- Harrison Point -- The situation in 2007 -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- Comment -- 11 Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy -- South Africa -- An aside: prisoner voting -- Department of Corrections -- Gambia -- Mozambique | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Visits to prisons -- Prison staff training course -- Comment -- 12 The Jericho Monitoring Mission -- First request -- Backstory 1 -- Ramallah: March 2002 -- Backstory 2 -- Jericho: April-May 2002 -- Tuesday 30 April -- Wednesday 1 May -- Meeting with Israeli security personnel -- Further briefing at the Consulate -- The transfer -- Thursday 2 May -- Return to Jericho -- Press conference -- Friday 3 May -- Backstory 3 -- Visit in July 2002 -- Follow-up visits -- Backstory 4 -- 14 March 2006: the final act -- The aftermath -- Comment -- 13 Towards 'a better way' -- A brief historical review | |
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