Prison Journal articles from June 1998

Prison Journal archives from June 1998

AIDS-related risk behavior among female prisoners with histories of mental impairment.
June 1, 1998... Expansion of the prisoner population since the 1980s has been relentless and staggering. With an increase of nearly 90,000 prison inmates between July 1994 and June 1995 alone (Proband 1995), the number of prisoners in U.S. state prisons now...

HIV/AIDS education needs assessment: a comparative study of jail and prison inmates in Northwest Florida.
June 1, 1998... Although HIV/AIDS is considered a serious health problem for the nation at large, the problem is amplified within America's jail and prison facilities, where the rate of HIV infection has been estimated to be as great as six times that of the...

Fear and loathing in the joint: the impact of race and age on inmate support for prison AIDS policies.
June 1, 1998... The popular media frequently portray maximum-security prisons as dangerous, even deadly places (Earley, 1992). Judging from media accounts alone, death comes to most inmates in the form of a shank or the executioner's needle. The reality of...

The real event model or the organizational convenience model? A national survey of correctional emergency preparedness evaluation methodology.
June 1, 1998... REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE How do correctional managers evaluate the capability of their personnel to effectively respond to the full range of potential correctional emergencies? More specifically, what is the structure of current emergency...

Gender, power, and reciprocity in the correctional setting.
June 1, 1998... All correction officers (COs) must develop strategies for gaining routine inmate compliance or risk forfeiture of their authority. The primary alternatives officially available to them are physical force, persuasion, and threats of punishment....

Productive labor and thought reform in Chinese corrections: a historical and comparative analysis.
June 1, 1998... The prison appeared as a form of punishment when Bridewell was built in the mid-16th century to house the idle, sturdy vagabonds and common strumpets in England (Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 1994). The early penal rationale for the use of the...