State and local prisons in operation across the United States
Conflicting goals in corrections: Punish, Rehabilitate, Incapacitate
But because we also need security, ergo custody
We must punish, because to do nothing would condone criminal behavior
The punishment environment
Two reasons that our prison work assignments for inmates are currently so counter-productive
Cheap prison labor, why it didn’t work, modern equivalent
The growth of the prison population since 1980
Racial composition of state and federal level prisons for Caucasian, African American, and Latino offenders
Proportions of persons not graduated from high school (include those with no GED)
The average sentence length of incarceration for prisoners serving in state institutions
The proportion of the total inmate population serving life sentences
The proportions for the total violent and non-violent offenders (and in each sub-category) among the prison population
Nonviolent: public order offenses drug property
Violent: murder robbery rape & assault