Full Description
How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues?
Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from his personal experience, Coyle, a prison practitioner, academic and international expert, discusses the failings of prison around the world.
Acknowledging the influence of external agencies, such as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and court interventions in the use of solitary confinement, he offers some positive pointers for the future and how there might be a better distribution of resources between criminal justice and social justice by an application of the principles of Justice Reinvestment.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The world of prisons
3. Prisons of the world
4. International Centre for Prison Studies
5. Women: the forgotten minority
6. The legacy of the Gulag
7. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
8. Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan
9. Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model?
10. Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
11. Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy
12. The Jericho Monitoring Mission
13. Towards 'a better way'
