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Description:Who makes the decision to send a person to prison? What is an average day like for a prisoner? What are the costs of keeping someone in prison? What are the aims of the prison system, and how well does the system achieve them? Lois Smith Owens and Vivian Verdell Gordon, both renowned scholars on criminal justice and incarceration, address many important questions in Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System. Their discussion begins with the origin of some of our laws, goes through the establishment of our prison system, and continues with the contemporary debate on the topic and the personal experiences of prisoners themselves. Owens and Gordon create a compelling introduction to a complicated issue: living with-and in-the American prison system. Lois Smith Owens is a professor at SUNY-Cobleskill in social studies and humanities and an adjunct professor at SUNY-Albany in African studies. She most recently was employed as a consultant to the Washington, D.C., Board of Parole and to the National Black Police Association. She is the former East Coast coordinator of the National Moratorium on Prison Construction and is now the national co-chair of the American Friends Service Committee's 200th Penitentiary Project. She has done extensive public speaking across the country on issues that impact the African American community, with specific focus on criminal justice. Vivian Verdell Gordon, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of African and African American Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. She is author and coauthor of several books on Black issues, as well as a contributor to various professional publications and a published poet. In 1990 she received the Martin Luther King Award for service from SUNY-Albany. She has been featured on numerous media programs, including "ABC News Nightwatch" and "C-SPAN.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System (Think Series). To get started finding Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System (Think Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Walker & Company

Release: 1991

ISBN: 0802781217

Description: Who makes the decision to send a person to prison? What is an average day like for a prisoner? What are the costs of keeping someone in prison? What are the aims of the prison system, and how well does the system achieve them? Lois Smith Owens and Vivian Verdell Gordon, both renowned scholars on criminal justice and incarceration, address many important questions in Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System. Their discussion begins with the origin of some of our laws, goes through the establishment of our prison system, and continues with the contemporary debate on the topic and the personal experiences of prisoners themselves. Owens and Gordon create a compelling introduction to a complicated issue: living with-and in-the American prison system. Lois Smith Owens is a professor at SUNY-Cobleskill in social studies and humanities and an adjunct professor at SUNY-Albany in African studies. She most recently was employed as a consultant to the Washington, D.C., Board of Parole and to the National Black Police Association. She is the former East Coast coordinator of the National Moratorium on Prison Construction and is now the national co-chair of the American Friends Service Committee's 200th Penitentiary Project. She has done extensive public speaking across the country on issues that impact the African American community, with specific focus on criminal justice. Vivian Verdell Gordon, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of African and African American Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. She is author and coauthor of several books on Black issues, as well as a contributor to various professional publications and a published poet. In 1990 she received the Martin Luther King Award for service from SUNY-Albany. She has been featured on numerous media programs, including "ABC News Nightwatch" and "C-SPAN.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System (Think Series). To get started finding Think About Prisons and the Criminal Justice System (Think Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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