Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison

by Robert Johnson, Ann Marie Rocheleau, Alison B. Martin

"Hard Time: A Fresh Look at Understanding and Reforming the Prison," "4th Edition," is a revised and updated version of the highly successful text addressing the origins, evolution, and promise of America's penal system. Draws from both ethnographic and professional material, and situates the prison experience within both contemporary and historical contexts Features first person accounts from male and female inmates and staff, revealing what it's actually like to live and work in prison Includes all-new chapters on prison reform and on supermax correctional facilities, including the latest research on confinement, long-term segregation, and death row Explores a wide range of topics, including the nature of prison as punishment; prisoner personality types and coping strategies; gang violence; prison officers' custodial duties; and psychological, educational, and work programs Develops policy recommendations for the future based on qualitative and quantitative research and evidence-based initiatives

432 pages, ebook

Published August 15, 2016

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[Jake · Rating 2 out of 5]

Incredibly reductive and backwards, “Prisoners deserve to suffer for the harms they have done to others.”