Prison Journal articles from June 1996

Prison Journal archives from June 1996

Employer attitudes toward hiring ex-offenders.
June 1, 1996... The goals of this article are to explore (a) employer attitudes toward hiring ex-offenders and (b) how these attitudes are affected by the level of training the ex-offender received while incarcerated, government incentives to hire, type of...

Work release in Washington: effects on recidivism and corrections costs.
June 1, 1996... Each year, U.S. prisons release more than 400,000 criminal offenders back to their communities. Most of those released will not remain crime-free, and national statistics show that within 3 years of release, 40% will be returned to prison or...

When inmates misbehave: the costs of discipline.
June 1, 1996... The threat and use of infractions is a primary means of official social control in prisons. The perceived fairness of the officers who observe and report infractions and of the review process is a salient concern for inmates; impressionistic...

Compulsory community-based substance abuse treatment and the mentally ill criminal offender.
June 1, 1996... The mentally ill "special needs" offender population is increasing (Jemelka, Trupin, & Chiles, 1989; Palermo, Gumz, & Liska, 1992). This growth may be due, in part, to the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1970s, which resulted...

Key differences among Community Corrections Acts in the United States: an overview.
June 1, 1996... In the early 1970s, policymakers in Minnesota, Iowa, and Colorado adopted Community Corrections Acts (CCAs) that were to serve as models for many aspects of community corrections programming and financing in the following years. Although the...