Key Correctional Issues

Corrections is a large component of the criminal justice process; a process that consists of an incredible complex and fragmented blend of many agencies and programs among federal, state and local jurisdictions.The nation's prison and jail population has risen to a record 2,166,260 this past year. It is an increase that has come when crime rates appear to be falling. Yet the price of imprisonment of combined federal and state facilities has grown 2.6 percent. One out of every 143 residents of this country is behind bars. Our incarceration rates are the highest of any nation. Why? This work is neither a text written by one author nor is it primarily a reader, but rather a combination. It highlights those issues relevant to the study of corrections: history goals prisoner re-entry suicide religion mental illness technology alternatives constitutional rights building design women and minorities death penalty terrorism the futureWe have gone from a philosophy of "hands-off" to "hands-on." Prisoners no longer have the status of "slave of the state." This text explains the relationships that exist in corrections from both an historical and twenty-first century point of view. Key Correctional Issues is an important work that presents a reference point allowing for future discussion.Muraskin, Roslyn is the author of 'Key Correctional Issues', published 2004 under ISBN 9780130358615 and ISBN 0130358614.