TY - BOOK AU - Worley,Vidisha Barua AU - Worley,Robert M. ED - Gale (Firm) TI - American prisons and jails: an encyclopedia of controversies and trends T2 - Gale eBooks SN - 9781610695015 AV - KF9730.A68 A44 2019 U1 - 365/.97303 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Santa Barbara, California PB - ABC-CLIO, LLC KW - Prisons KW - Law and legislation KW - United States KW - Encyclopedias KW - Correctional law KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; v. 1. A-M -- v. 2. N-Z N2 - This encyclopedia provides a summary of correctional systems and practices and their evolution throughout US history and includes contributions from leading scholars of correctional systems and practices. Topics include sentencing norms and contemporary developments; differences between local, regional, state, and federal systems; violent and nonviolent inmate populations; operations of state and federal prisons; privately run, for-profit prisons; and much more UR - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/841J/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=lom_nwmichcoll ER -