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This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system.
List of contents
Introduction
Section I: Pre-Incarceration
Chapter One: Plea Bargaining and Using Children to Coerce Cooperation
Chapter Two: Children at Arrest
Chapter Three: An Alford Plea Conundrum
Section II: Incarceration
Chapter Four: Time Fades to Grey
Chapter Five. The Yard Ball Paradox - Before Time Turns Grey
Chapter Six. Vernon Can't Read: Prison Education
Chapter Seven: Doing the Schizophrenic Shuffle: Mental Health and Psychopharmacology
Chapter Eight: Abe's Abscess
Chapter Nine: Deliberate Indifference or Indifferently Deliberate: How the Slow Pace of Prison Health Care Killed Matthew
Chapter Ten: End of Life Care
Section III: Post-Incarceration
Chapter Eleven: Walking Around Money and the Bus to Nowhere
Chapter Twelve: Get a J-O-B
Chapter Thirteen: Burned Bridges
Conclusion: RAP'ing Up
About the author
Anne S. Douds is lecturer of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg and former trial lawyer.
Eileen M. Ahlin is assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.
Summary
This book brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. The authors examine how these two seemingly disparate perspectives complement each other to provide straightforward, commonsense solutions to address the current state of the corrections system.
