NCJ Number
117680
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 29 Issue: 21 Dated: (Spring 1989) Pages: 107-128
Date Published
1989
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Data from two similar studies on adult male prisons conducted in 1970-2 and 1985-7, are compared.
Abstract
The data show that the crisis in the prison systems is not simply a problem of overcrowding and poor sanitation in the local prisons. The most recent study revealed consistently worse regimes than the earlier study in spite of major improvements in staff to prisoner ratios. The most dramatic findings are that in terms of hours out of cell and time spent in work, the two highest-security prisons today more closely resemble the local prison of fifteen years ago. 10 tables and 29 references. (Author abstract modified)