A Ten Year Program for the Department of Welfare
Title | A Ten Year Program for the Department of Welfare PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Pennington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Public welfare |
ISBN |
From Asylum to Prison
Title | From Asylum to Prison PDF eBook |
Author | Anne E. Parsons |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2018-09-25 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1469640643 |
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, Parsons tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic. This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and mental health policy making. In doing so, she offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum in crucial ways, shaping the rise of the prison industrial complex.
Handbook of Correctional Institution Design and Construction
Title | Handbook of Correctional Institution Design and Construction PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Prisons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Prisons |
ISBN |
The Court and Correctional System of the State of Pennsylvania, with a Directory of Judges and Probation Officers ...
Title | The Court and Correctional System of the State of Pennsylvania, with a Directory of Judges and Probation Officers ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Courts |
ISBN |
Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1354 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Legislative Journal
Title | Legislative Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania. General Assembly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1476 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Legislative journals |
ISBN |
Biennial Budget of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Title | Biennial Budget of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania. Governor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Budget |
ISBN |