Some prisoners love and care for each other, but others physically, verbally and emotionally abuse each other. These offences can threaten safety and the good order of the prison.
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Vulnerable young people have been failed by austerity policies that have decimated the services meant to protect them.
Women in prison with brain injury are at increased risk of substance abuse, poor mental health and suicide. Yet support for these women is scant.
Asylums were once designed to aid mental recovery – perhaps modern prisons should take note.
The British justice secretary's proposal to make short prison sentences a last resort is the right idea at the worst possible time.
Most Victorian convicts left prison weighing the same as when they arrived. Some even gained weight.
Introducing colour and light to a traditionally dark place.
From the curious to the serious – a bird's eye view of the unique ways in which The Conversation covers the world.
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
The politically and emotionally charged court of public opinion is not the place to make policy changes in areas as complex as corrections.
Open gates, good food and communal living make for a very different approach to incarceration.
Turning prisons into a market opportunity could open them up to corruption.
A new public opinion survey reveals Americans largely agree on sentencing reform, and how money spent on prisons could be reinvested in communities.
Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
A wealth of research suggests prisons have serious detrimental effects on prisoners and prison workers.
Politicians' knee jerk dismissal of an idea that could help rehabilitate ex-offenders is
unhelpful.
A historian reminds us that protests in prisons are often followed by retaliation.
Games such as chess should be a welcome addition to the activities available for prisoners.
Some drug and alcohol programs
currently used in prisons have little evidence to support them.
Prisoners in 17 states are striking to call attention to harsh conditions and low pay for their labor, something that may run afoul of the 13th Amendment and other legal commitments.
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
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Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa and Visiting professor and strategic advisor in Faculty of Humanities., University of Johannesburg
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Adjunct Professor, School of Global, Social and Urban Studies, RMIT University
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Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Researcher, UNSW
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Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Senior lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
