American jails public policy issues
edited by Joel A. Thompson and G. Larry Mays.
- Chicago Nelson-Hall c1991.
- xv, 288 p. 23 cm.
"Published in conjunction with the Policy Studies Organization"--P. ii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-275) and indexes.
The political and organizational context of American jails / G. Larry Mays and Joel A. Thompson -- Competing ideologies of jail confinement / Patrick G. Jackson -- Disaggregating jail use : variety and change in local corrections over a ten-year period / John M. Klofas --Exploring suicides and deaths by natural causes in America's large jails : a panel study of institutional change, 1978 and 1983 / L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and John D. Wooldredge -- Mental health services for jail inmates : imprecise standards, traditional philosophies, and the need for change / David Kalinich, Paul Embert, and Jeffrey Senese -- Public policy issues in the delivery of mental health services in a jail setting / Jeanette M. Jerrell and Richard Komisaruk. AIDS in jail / James E. Lawrence and Van Zwisohn -- The politics of jail overcrowding : public attitudes and official policies / Wayne N. Welsh ... [et al.] -- The expansion of jail capacity : makeshift jails and public policy / Michael Welch -- Changing jail organization and management : toward improved employee utilization / Eric D. Poole and Mark R. Pogrebin -- The new generation jail : an overview / Linda L. Zupan and Ben A. Menke -- Jail inmate litigation in the 1990s / Dean J. Champion -- Removing juveniles from adult jails : the unfinished agenda / Ira M. Schwartz -- Managing the crisis in local corrections : a public-private partnership approach / Norman R. Cox, Jr., and William E. Osterhoff. Paying the piper but changing the tune : policy changes and initiatives for the American jail / Joel A. Thompson and G. Larry Mays.
Prisons--Government policy--United States. Criminal justice, Administration of--United States. Prisoners--Health and hygiene--United States. Prison administration--United States.