American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- To grasp the nature and depth of the problem of handling people with special needs in the corrections system.
- To understand the trend toward incarcerating the mentally ill.
- To have a sense of the rates of mental illness among the incarcerated population.
- To be aware of the issues around aging, physical illness, and death among prisoners.
- To grasp some of the challenges for staff and administrators with segregated vulnerable prisoners.
- To gain a sense of the problems faced by LGBTQ individuals in highly gender-segregated institutions.
- To be able to discuss the dilemma of prisoners receiving health care that they may not have received in their own community and that may rival what staff can afford.
- Understand how custody can be an opportunity to address prisoner vulnerability before release to the community.