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With recent sentencing law changes at the state and national level, the United States will continue to use long-term confinement more than any other nation in the world. In this authoritative yet accessible volume, scholars, correctional authorities, researchers, and prisoners examine the use of long-term incarceration as a response to crime, the effects of long-term incarceration, and the strategies used by long-term inmates to adjust to confinement. Long-Term Imprisonment explores the prison experience of both male and female inmates and discusses the correctional management challenges posed by long-term incarceration. The core of this collection, edited by Timothy Flanagan, is a set of articles first published in The Prison Journal, the official journal of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the oldest journal in the field of corrections. These articles are complemented with research reports on the effects of long-term confinement, a comprehensive analysis of long-term inmates currently confined in American and Canadian prisons, and essays written by long-term prisoners. If you are interested in the use and operation of prisons, and in the impact of these institutions on the people confined within them, this book is for you. In addition to students studying imprisonment, the book informs correctional administrators and policymakers about the nature of long-term inmate population and the impact of long-term imprisonment. “Timothy Flanagan began studying the effects of long-term incarceration over two decades ago when he conducted one of the first major studies of prisoners serving long sentences. Since then, many changes have occurred in corrections and sentences practices that have greatly increased sentence lengths and the number of prisoners serving long sentences. The collection of the essays contained in Long-Term Imprisonment represents the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive review of literature regarding the effects of long-term incarceration on prisoners. Flanagan provides readers with a variety of perspectives of long-term imprisonment by including articles written by prison researchers, corrections officials, and long-term prisoners. This book is must reading for anyone interested in life in prisons and the unique world of the long-term prisoner.” --Kevin N. Wright, Binghamton University
Long-Term Offenders in Canada
Long-Term Offenders in Canada
The Task Force on Long-Term Sentences, commissioned by the Correctional Service of Canada, recently tabled its recommendations concerning the management and treatment of inmates serving long prison terms. Highlights of the Task Force's 37 recommendations include:
- the development of a management model for long-term sentences;
- staff training to meet the specific needs of long-term offenders; and
- the development of programming for long-term offenders.
Supporting these recommendations, recent research has underscored the unique nature of this offender group and has argued that innovative methods of service delivery and programming opportunities are necessary to meet the needs of long-term offenders adequately.
This article strives to provide a clearer picture of the characteristics of the long-term offender population, based on an overview ...