An address given July 12, 1971 to the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges. (Author)

It took nine Pittsburgh librarians ten months, but they succeeded in setting up a library in the county jail. (Author)

Indicates that the weaknesses inherent in most correctional education programs have remained fundamentally unchanged for the past 50 years. Problems persist, recommendations are made, but never implemented. (JOW)

In 1972, the Center for Community Justice undertook a program designed to apply concepts underlying the handling of conflict in industrial relations to conflict resolution in correctional institutions. In subsequent years, the Center expanded the development and testing of inmate grievance procedures to correctional systems in a number of states.…

Surveyed American prisoner home furloughs covering the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Bureau of Prisons. Found 50 correctional systems had home furlough policies in 1988, compared to 2 systems in 1967, 25 systems in 1971, 44 systems in 1977, and 47 systems in 1979. (Author/ABL)

Assessed amount of cost-saving represented by the use of volunteer services within a probation and parole agency for a 12-month period. Results indicated that volunteer services represented cost savings in excess of $145,000 for the year, and that these services represent an average of 6.33 full time employees (FTEs) per month. (Author)

Rejects federal court ruling that prison crowding must be considered in light of total space availability of given institution. Notes variability in body buffer zones for each individual inmate, aggression potential, and variability between violent and nonviolent inmates. Contends that correctional practitioners should allocate institutional space…

Tens of thousands of the nation's young people are placed in psychiatric and criminal justice programs annually. Within those settings, many confront an assortment of restraint and seclusionary measures. This paper discusses the population of young people exposed to such procedures and examines the implications within these settings and elsewhere.…

Reviews recent studies of prison suicides, whose results call into question conventional belief that longer term prisoners rarely kill themselves. Studies suggest that completed suicide in prison is serious public health problem and that, for certain subgroups, risks of completed suicide approach, and perhaps exceed, those of jail detainees.…

Discusses literacy practices in prisons as a "third space" between outside and inside prison walls. Examples of one prisoner's engagement in literacy development illustrate how formal and informal literacies intertwine and how correctional education creates a fourth space that can serve as a bridge to the outside world. (SK)

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST) (Carstensen, 1992, 1993) accounts for lifespan changes in human social networks and for the motivations which underlie those changes. SST is applied in this research with 256 prison inmates and non-inmates, ages 18-84, from Mississippi, Kansas, and New Mexico. Two research questions sought to identify (a)…

Rising imprisonment rates and declining marriage rates among low-education African Americans motivate an analysis of the effects of incarceration on marriage. An event history analysis of 2,041 unmarried men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth suggests that men are unlikely to marry in the years they serve in prison. A separate analysis…

This article examines the lessons learned by youths confined to a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility. Using data from an ethnographic study of a cottage of violent offenders in one state's end-of-the-line training school, the author describes the lessons the institution and its staff members hoped to teach the young people in their…