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		<title>Educational Programs in Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 01:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1987 I was 23 years old and taking the first steps through a 45-year sentence in federal prison.  I had never been incarcerated before, so I did not know what to expect from the experience.  All I knew was that when I emerged from an odyssey that would carry me through prisons of every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-Treatment Programs in Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three scholars from Temple University&#8217;s School of Criminal Justice collaborated to write chapter 19, &#8220;Understanding the Impact of Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings&#8221; in The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections. Professors Steven Belenko, Kimberly A. Houser, and Wayne Welsh did an excellent job of presenting facts showing why legislators and prison administrators should allocate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulating Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, while I was confined in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, I saw pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal on the television news. Those images of prisoner abuse influenced public opinion on the war in Iraq. As horrific as they were, I wondered why American citizens expressed so much disgust over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prison Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 04:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the men who served time alongside me inside the Federal Prison Camp in Atwater lacked an appreciation for the conditions under which we lived.  I understood their perspective.  Whereas I&#8217;ve been incarcerated since 1987 in prisons of every security level, most of the other minimum-security prisoners recently surrendered to serve terms that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jails in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was arrested in 1987 I was first held in lockup, then a detention center, then a series of jails until my judicial proceedings concluded and I was shipped off to a high-security penitentiary.  At the time, I was in my early 20s and new to the experience of imprisonment.  Since that initial arrest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probation and Intermediate Sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 25 years, since 1987, I&#8217;ve lived as a prisoner, experiencing our nation&#8217;s commitment to mass incarceration first hand.  Later this year, I am scheduled to transition from prison to a halfway house and supervised release.  Since I don&#8217;t know much of anything about community-based corrections, I&#8217;m grateful to Faye S. Taxman, Professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reform Without Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to have begun reading Part III of The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections.  Two Florida professors coauthored the first chapter in this section, titled &#8220;American Corrections: Reform Without Change.&#8221;   Karol Lucken, one of the authors, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida.  Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sentencing Procedures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy J. King, a distinguished professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School, published the &#8220;Procedure At Sentencing&#8221; chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections.  The chapter would interest anyone seeking a full understanding of how America&#8217;s criminal justice system operates.  Professor King explained why the sentencing hearing differed in fundamental ways from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sentencing Commissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections is proving itself an outstanding resource, one that offers numerous chapters that help me better understand our criminal justice system. Professor Robert Weisberg, the Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Co-director at the Stanford Criminal Justice Center of Stanford Law School, wrote chapter 12 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indeterminate and Determinate Sentencing Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 05:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sentencing systems in the United States are not easy to understand.  Many states make use of indeterminate sentencing systems, while other states and the federal government make use of a determinate sentencing system.  Those who want to learn details of the differences between the two types of sentencing systems will find a chapter by Professor [...]]]></description>
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