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Conditions of Confinement Colloquium - Speech
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Keynote address.
It has been my experience that most people's perception of prison confinement is based on either a negative personal encounter with a prison or offender, or in the case of too many, a lack of personal contact with prisons and offenders. And that is no surprise; given the history of where prisons were most often built--away from family, friends, and the communities from which the offender came--the notion "out of sight, out of mind" seems appropriate.
For me, having spent a career working in corrections, conditions of prison confinement are as numerous as they are complex. First and foremost, confinement, by definition, means the loss of freedom and privacy. Many people may think they can relate to that idea, but few get to fully understand it on an emotional level. The loss of freedom and privacy in prison is not like it is in the military, where...See the full content of this document
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