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This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ, as evidenced by data gathered from interviews with 150 prison administrators in ten international trips. Despite many variations between the fifteen prisons and four systems in this study, they had strikingly similar long-term paths.
List of contents
Illustrations
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Modern Prison Bureaucracies: Monuments of a Charitable Disposition?
Chapter 2: Poverty among Plenty: The Need for More Knowledge of Modern Prisons and Global Public Administration
Chapter 3: The Origins and Structure of Prison Systems in Mexico and the US
Chapter 4: The Origins and Structure of Prison Systems in India and Honduras
Chapter 5: The Mis-Measure of Prison Performance
Chapter 6: A Tyranny of the Educated versus Tudors Resurgent: Prisons in Mexico City and South Carolina
Chapter 7: Differences in Bureaucratic Performance in Two Mexican Prisons
Chapter 8: Indian Prisons in Delhi and Telangana compared to La Tamara Prison in Honduras
Chapter 9: On the Meaning of Prisons
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
By Brian Norris
Summary
This book examines how the form and function of prisons in the United States, Mexico, India, and Honduras differ, as evidenced by data gathered from interviews with 150 prison administrators in ten international trips. Despite many variations between the fifteen prisons and four systems in this study, they had strikingly similar long-term paths.
