Lawful Order: A Case Study of Correctional Crisis and Reform » (3rd Edition)

Prisons remain a controversial topic for debate in our society. While few doubt the necessity of their existence, there is considerable debate over their purpose, organization, and processes. Do prisons exist to rehabilitate, punish, or simply incarcerate? How do we judge prison conditions? If those conditions are found to be unacceptable, how do we change them? What are a prisoner's rights?
This book charts the history of Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions over the past 40 years. Professor Carroll examines the radical transformation of Rhode Island prisons in response to changes in their external environment, and determines that the transformation can be seen to manisfest five distinct stages: patriarchy, anarchy, restoration, threat, and consolidation.

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An analysis of the evolution of a prison system as it has adapted to the myriad influences impinging upon in it the last half of the twentieth century. Includes discussions of the attempt to implement the rehabilitative ideal in the 1950s and 1960s and the abandonment of that attempt in the subsequent decades, the unionization of correctional staff, the changing demographic composition of both the prisoner population and its keepers, the rapid growth in the number of prisoners brought on by successive wars on drugs, and the development of highly sophisticated carceral technologies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.