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Author | : Joshua Page |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199985073 |
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The Toughest Beat uses the rise of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the state's powerful prison officers' union, to explore the actors and interests that have created, shaped, and protected the Golden State's sprawling, dysfunctional penal system -- and how it might yet be transformed.
Author | : Joshua Aaron Page |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780549169895 |
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Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, and field observations, this study explains how and why the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the labor union that represents prison officers and other correctional workers in the Golden State, became a politically powerful and organizationally strong agency during the last three decades---just when most other American labor unions lost members and political clout. This study also elucidates the concrete and subtle ways that the CCPOA has affected criminal punishment policies and priorities in California.
Author | : Zachary Steven Ramirez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Peace officers |
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Author | : William Richard Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0814210015 |
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What do we know first-hand about prisons? We have accounts from many top administrators. There is a large literature of convict reports and memoirs. But we have almost no personal accounts written by the people who were engaged in the day-to-day work of guarding and keeping prison inmates. In Prison Work, former California prisons corrections officer William Richard Wilkinson candidly tells what it was like to try to handle problems that can arise in prison, from furnishing three meals a day to quelling a riot. Constructed around a series of interviews with Wilkinson, this book recounts his extensive experience with discipline problems, wrong-headed administrators, contraband, and escapes. Wilkinson's story presents a blunt, unabashed view of daily life in prison, including fascinating discussions of racial and religious conflict, gangs, and prison violence as well as the institutional culture and more human side of life as experienced by a prison employee. The duration of Wilkinson's career (1951-1981) saw the greatest change in the American prison system. He was responsible for implementing change on the level of the prison block. At the California Institution for Men in Chino, he started out under the inspiring leadership of one of the most famous reform figures in penology. At the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, he participated in one of the great prison experiments when medical officials ran a maximum security prison. And at Soledad, he experienced the reaction to earlier liberal policies. Over the years, he accumulated much wisdom concerning how to handle convicts-wisdom that still has importance for corrections workers. Book jacket.
Author | : Ivan G. Goldman |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1612344879 |
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In America, 2.3 million people-a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city-live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. Sick Justice tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty.
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Total Pages | : 1650 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Automobile industry and trade |
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Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : House painting |
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Author | : California (State). |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
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Genre | : Law |
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Download California. Court of Appeal (3rd Appellate District). Records and Briefs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jerry B. Jenkins |
Publisher | : Barbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1920 |
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ISBN | : 9781557481665 |
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Author | : John F. Timoney |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812205421 |
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Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, including CompStat, that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership, crime declined in every major category, especially homicide. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami, a post he held from 2003 to January 2010. Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities. Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.