This NY Times article would be interesting to read, analyze and discuss from an SRV perspective (e.g., in an SRV study group, university class, etc.). Some angles for analysis and discussion might include: • segregation… Read More »NY Times article: ‘Rikers to Ban Isolation for Inmates 21 and Younger’
This UK article looks at societal devaluation associated with prisons, particularly with prisoners with additional devaluing conditions (e.g., intellectual impairment.) From the article: • As part of my third-year learning disability branch placement in a British prison… Read More »article: Experiences of subculture within a prison community
Thanks to Bill Forman for sharing this news item from the Globe & Mail. The brief anecdote is an example of being socialized into the devalued role of prisoner, so that the role eventually becomes… Read More »Globe and Mail news item: when prison feels like home
This NY Times article entitled ‘Alabama’s White Elephant’ describes several likely problematic consequences of a new federal prison for women being built in Alabama (US). Many of these problems can be framed and understood in… Read More »Prisons and ‘setting access’
Recently in Canada, there has been a media sensation over the release of former media baron and still-writer and columnist Conrad Black from an American prison (where he was serving time for various white-collar crimes).… Read More »SRV in the News – May 18, 2012
A report from the US Bureau of Justice. I have not started reviewing this material yet, and so may have more to post on in the future, but even the highlights are sadly instructive about the… Read More »US Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime Against Persons With Disabilities, 2008-2010 – Statistical Tables