America's prisons
Subtitle: opposing viewpoints
By: Clare Hanrahan, book editor.
Contributors: Hanrahan, Clare.
Series: Opposing viewpoints; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780737733440
Subjects: Prisons -- United States; Imprisonment -- United States; Prison administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Do prisons protect public safety? Prisons protect the public from violent crime / David B. Muhlhausen; title: Prisons increase violence / Carolina Cordero Dyer; title: Imprisoning drug offenders makes America safer / James R. McDonough; title: Imprisoning drug offenders does not make America safer / Ethan Nadelmann; title: Mandatory minimum sentences should be repealed / pt. I: USA Today; pt. II: Ron Walters; title: Are prisons just? U.S. prisons are humane / Harley G. Lappin; title: U.S. prisons are not humane / Judith Greene; title: Prison system is racist / Paul Street; title: Prison system is not racist / R.D. Davis; title: Supermaximum security prisons are cruel / Sasha Abramsky; title: Supermaximum security prisons are necessary / Thomas J. Stickrath, Gregory A. Bucholtz; title: Cross-gender prisoner searches are abusive / Alan Elsner; title: Cross-gender prisoner searches can be justified / Gary W. DeLand; title: How should prisons operate? Privately operated prisons are beneficial / Geoffrey F. Segal; title: Privately operated prisons are not beneficial / Jenni Gainsborough; title: Prison labor benefits inmates / Morgan Reynolds; title: Prison labor exploits inmates / Brandi Kishner; title: Prisoners should be charged for prison costs / Michelle M. Sanborn; title: Prisoners should not be charged for prison costs / Phebe Eckfeldt; title: Faith-based programs benefit prisoners / Melissa Rogers; title: Faith-based programs discriminate against prisoners / Samantha M. Shapiro; title: Who should be imprisoned? Criminal youth should be imprisoned / James C. Backstrom; title: Criminal youth should not be imprisoned / Lenore Anderson; title: Dying prisoners should receive compassionate release / Rashida Edmondson; title: Prison hospice care meets the needs of dying prisoners / Anne M. Seidlitz; title: Mentally ill criminals should not be imprisoned / Joanne Mariner; title: Caring for mentally ill criminals outside of prison is dangerous / Jim Doyle, Peter Fimrite; title: Mothers should not be imprisoned / Jackie Crawford; title: Imprisoning pregnant women harms unborn children / Ayelet Waldman.