State and local prisons in operation across the United States
Three things prisons must do:
Punish (Retribution)
Reform (Rehabilitate)
Secure (Protect the public)
Conflicting goals in corrections:
Conflicting: Punish and Reform
Not conflict: Secure (Protect the public)
The punishment environment
The dilemma of goal-conflict is inmate jobs
Cheap prison labor
The modern equivalent
Death row inmates
Male / Female Inmate-age
Male / Female Inmate-education
Male / Female Inmate-offending
Prison-born Infants
Female inmates pre-incarceration
Sentence Length
Life Sentence