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  2. Prisoner reentry - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Consideration for the conditions of the communities formerly incarcerated individuals are re-entering, which are often disadvantaged, is a fundamental part of successful re-entry. [ 4 ] A 2006 study done by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation [ 5 ] statistically evaluated the effectiveness of prisoner reentry programs on the ...

  3. Prison reform - Wikipedia

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    At the same time they could revoke the probation status without going through another trial or other proper process. [ 25 ] In 1913, Thomas Mott Osborne became chairman of a commission for the reform of the New York prison system and introduced a Mutual Welfare League at Auburn with a committee of 49 prisoners appointed by secret ballot from ...

  4. Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States

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    The much larger size of the male prison population causes major differences in the institutions in which male and female inmates serve their time. [3] Another significant factor in prisoner social structure is the differences in arrest factors for male and female prison populations; higher proportion of female inmates are incarcerated due to a ...

  5. Prison literature - Wikipedia

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did some of his writing while imprisoned by the Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Prize in 1970. Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter by Martin Luther King Jr. written in 1963 from City Jail, Birmingham, Alabama. Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver, written in Folsom State Prison in ...

  6. Cambridge English Corpus - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) is a collection of over 2 billion words [1] of real spoken and written English. The texts are stored in a database that can be searched to see how English is used. The CIC also contains the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ESOL.

  7. Eastern State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Midway of Another Day – A metal sundial set up to show "the passing of time" by Michael Grothusen in the courtyard of cell block one. I always wanted to go to Paris, France – Artist Alexa Hoyer set up three TVs, one in a cell, one in a hallway, and one in a shower room, showing seven decades of prison films.

  8. Prison education - Wikipedia

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    Government analysts estimated that the programme was saving taxpayers more than $24 million a year based solely on the costs of re-incarceration. [148] In the State of Washington, the cost of post-secondary prison education in 2016 was $1,249 per inmate, while the total financial savings per inmate due to the courses was found to be $26,630.

  9. Alternatives to imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    Academic studies are inconclusive as to whether high imprisonment rates reduce crime rates in comparison to low imprisonment rates. [1] While they at least remove offenders from the community, [1] [2] [3] there is little evidence that prisons can rehabilitate offenders [4] [5] or deter crime. [3]