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Lifer
“Lifer” is a slang term referring to a prisoner who is serving a life sentence. There are two types of lifers, those who will spend the rest of their natural lives in prison waiting to die, and those who may someday ...
- Authors
- Angela Y. Davis
- Anthony Platt
- Cesare Beccaria
- Constitutive Penology
- Convict Criminology
- David Garland
- David Rothman
- Donald Clemmer
- Elizabeth Frye
- George Jackson
- Gresham Sykes
- Jack Henry Abbott
- Jeremy Bentham
- Jerome Miller
- John Howard
- John Irwin
- John J. DiIulio, Jr.
- Meda Chesney-Lind
- Michel Foucault
- Nicole Hahn Rafter
- Norval Ramsden Morris
- Robert Martinson
- Rose Giallombardo
- Health
- History
- Alcatraz
- Alexander Maconochie
- Attica Correctional Facility
- Auburn System
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
- Bridewell Prison and Workhouse
- Cesare Beccaria
- Convict Lease System
- Dorothea Dix
- Elmira Reformatory
- History of Correctional Officers
- History of Prisons
- History of Religion in Prison
- History of Women's Prisons
- Irish (or Crofton) System
- Jeremy Bentham
- Josephine Shaw Lowell
- Juvenile Reformatories
- Katharine Bement Davis
- Labor
- Mabel Walker Willebrant
- Massachusetts Reformatory
- Medical Experiments
- Panopticon
- Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Pennsylvania Prison Society
- Pennsylvania System
- Plantation Prisons
- Prison Ships
- Slavery
- Zebulon Reed Brockway
- Inmates
- Institutions
- ADX (Administrative Maximum): Florence
- Alcatraz
- Alderson, Federal Prison Camp
- Angola Penitentiary
- Attica Correctional Facility
- Auburn Correctional Facility
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
- Bridewell Prison and Workhouse
- Co-correctional Facilities
- Community Corrections Centers
- Corcoran, California State Prison
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Elmira Reformatory
- Framingham, MCI
- Huntsville Penitentiary
- INS Detention Facilities
- Leavenworth, U.S. Penitentiary
- Lexington High Security Unit
- Marion, U.S. Penitentiary
- Massachusetts Reformatory
- New Maxico Penitentiary
- Newgate Prison
- Norfolk Prison
- Oak Park Heights, Minnesota Correctional Facility
- Panopticon
- Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Patuxent Institution
- Pelican Bay State Prison
- Rikers Island Jail
- San Quentin State Prison
- Sing Sing Correctional Facility
- Stateville Correctional Center
- Terre Haute U.S. Penitentiary Death Row
- Walla Walla Washington State Penitentiary
- Walnut Street Jail
- Juvenile Justice
- Anthony Platt
- Boot Camp
- Child Savers
- Children
- Cook County, Illinois
- Detained Youth and Committed Youth
- Group Homes
- Jerome G. Miller
- Juvenile Death Penalty
- Juvenile Detention Centers
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
- Juvenile Justice System
- Juvenile Offenders: Race, Class, and Gender
- Juvenile Reformatories
- Meda Chesney-Lind
- Mens Rea
- Parens Patriae
- Patuxent Institution
- Status Offenders
- Waiver of Juveniles Into the Adult Court System
- Youth Corrections Act
- Labor
- Penal Systems
- Australia
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Canada
- Co-correctional Facilities
- Community Corrections Centers
- District of Columbia Corrections System
- England and Wales
- Federal Prison System
- High-Rise Prisons
- INS Detention Facilities
- Irish (or Crofton) System
- Jails
- Juvenile Justice System
- Lockup
- Military Prisons
- New Zealand
- Prison Ships
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Relocation Centers
- Slavery
- State Prison System
- Supermax Prisons
- Women's Prisons
- Prison Architecture
- Prison Life
- Argot
- Cell Search
- Chaplains
- Children's Visits
- Commissary
- Conjugal Visits
- Contact Visits
- Contract Ministers
- Convict Criminology
- Deprivation
- Food
- Gangs
- Hip Hop
- Homosexual Relationships
- Hooch
- Importation
- Inmate Code
- Inmate Volunteers
- Islam in Prison
- Jailhouse Lawyers
- Judaism in Prison
- Lawyer's Visits
- Lesbian Relationships
- Parenting Programs
- Prison Culture
- Prison Literature
- Prison Movies
- Prison Music
- Prison Nurseries
- Prisoner Pay
- Rape
- Resistance
- Riots
- Santería
- Satanism
- Sex—Consensual
- Sexual Relations With Staff
- Snitch
- Strip Search
- Tattooing
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Trustee
- Violence
- Visits
- Prison Population
- African American Prisoners
- Aryan Brotherhood
- Aryan Nations
- Asian American Prisoners
- Bisexual Prisoners
- Black Panther Party
- Bloods
- Celebrities in Prison
- Children
- Crips
- Cuban Detainees
- Disabled Prisoners
- Draft Resisters
- Drug Offenders
- Elderly Prisoners
- Enemy Combatants
- Fathers in Prison
- Foreign Nationals
- Hispanic/Latino(a) Prisoners
- Homosexual Prisoners
- Immigrants/Illegal Aliens
- Increase in Prison Population
- Juvenile Offenders: Race, Class, and Gender
- Lesbian Prisoners
- Lifer
- Mothers in Prison
- Native American Prisoners
- Overcrowding
- Political Prisoners
- Politicians
- Puerto Rican Nationalists
- Race, Class, and Gender of Prisoners
- Sex Offenders
- Status Offenders
- Transgender and Transsexual Prisoners
- WITSEC
- Wives of Prisoners
- Women Prisoners
- Young Lords
- Prison Reform
- “Stop Prisoner Rape”
- Abolition
- Activism
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Angela Y. Davis
- Attica Brothers Defense Fund
- Benjamin Rush
- Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
- Critical Resistance
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Elizabeth Fry
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Faith-Based Initiatives
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- Fay Honey Knopp
- Felon Disenfranchisement
- George Jackson
- Hospice
- John Howard
- Kate Richards O'Hare
- Miriam Van Waters
- National Prison Project
- November Coalition
- Pennsylvania Prison Society
- Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
- Prison Monitoring Organizations
- Quakers
- Women's Advocate Ministry
- Privatization
- Programs
- Accreditation
- Adult Continuing Education
- Alcohol Treatment Programs
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Art Programs
- Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Chaplains
- College Courses in Prison
- Creative Writing Programs
- Deathwatch
- Drama Programs
- Drug Treatment Programs
- Education
- English as a Second Language
- Furlough
- General Educational Development (GED) Exam and General Equivalency Diploma
- Group Therapy
- Individual Therapy
- Music Programs in Prison
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Parenting Programs
- Pell Grants
- Prerelease Programs
- Psychological Services
- Recreation Programs
- Religion in Prison
- Sex Offender Programs
- Therapeutic Communities
- Vocational Training Programs
- Work-Release Programs
- Race, Class, and Gender
- Security and Classification
- Accreditation
- ADX (Administrative Maximum): Florence
- Civil Commitment of Sexual Predators
- Classification
- Clemency
- Community Corrections Centers
- Compassionate Release
- Contraband
- Electronic Monitoring
- Escapes
- Gangs
- Good Time Credit
- Home Arrest
- Life Without Parole
- Managerialism
- Maximum Security
- Medium Security
- Minimum Security
- Parole
- Prison Farms
- Prisoner Reentry
- Probation
- Rape
- Security and Control
- Supermax Prisons
- U.S. Marshals Service
- WITSEC
- Sentencing Policy and Legislation
- Ashurst-Sumners Act 1935
- Clemency
- Compassionate Release
- Determinate Sentencing
- Discipline System
- Dothard v. Rawlinson
- Eighth Amendment
- Estelle v. Gamble
- First Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Freedom of Information Act
- Furman v. Georgia
- Good Time Credit
- Habeas Corpus
- Hawes Cooper Act 1929
- Indeterminate Sentencing
- Jailhouse Lawyers
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 1989
- Life Without Parole
- Megan's Law
- Mens Rea
- Parens Patriae
- Politicians
- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
- Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program
- Prison Litigation and Reform Act (PLRA) 1996
- Prisoner Litigation
- Rehabilitation Act 1973
- Ruiz v. Estelle
- Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act
- Sentencing Reform Act 1984
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Three Prisons Act 1891
- Three-Strikes Legislation
- Truth in Sentencing
- USA PATRIOT Act 2001
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 1994
- Volstead Act 1918
- War on Drugs
- Wilson v. Seiter
- Youth Corrections Act 1950
- Staff
- Alexander Maconochie
- American Correctional Association
- Benjamin Rush
- Correctional Officer Pay
- Correctional Officer Unions
- Correctional Officers
- Dothard v. Rawlingson
- Governance
- History of Correctional Officers
- James V. Bennett
- Joseph E. Ragen
- Katharine Bement Davis
- Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
- Legitimacy
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt
- Managerialism
- Mary Belle Harris
- Miriam Van Waters
- National Institute of Corrections
- Officer Code
- Professionalization of Staff
- Psychologists
- Sanford Bates
- Sexual Relations With Staff
- Staff Training
- U.S. Marshals Service
- Unit Management
- Volunteers
- Zebulon Reed Brockway
- Theories of Punishment
- Types of Punishment
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