What Makes You the 'Worst of the Worst?' An Examination of State Policies Defining Supermaximum Confinement

Autor:	W. Wesley Johnson, O. Hayden Griffin, H. Daniel Butler
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Prison population Restrictive housing Actuarial science State (polity) media_common.quotation_subject Political science Measure (physics) Law media_common
Zdroj:	Criminal Justice Policy Review. 24:676-694
ISSN:	1552-3586 0887-4034
DOI:	10.1177/0887403412465715
Popis:	As a response to an increasing prison population and as a counteractive measure to problematic inmates, many states within the United States have established supermaximum (supermax) prisons or supermax units within existing prison facilities. Many criminal justice researchers have questioned the efficacy of these specialized units. Although the National Institute for Corrections has established model criteria to dictate what types of inmates should be placed in supermax custody, existing research has not yet examined if the states have chosen to follow the criteria or substitute their own criteria for admission to supermax custody. The current study examines 42 individual state policies in an attempt to ascertain how states determine which inmates are considered the “worst of the worst” and deserve segregation in supermax facilities and/or units. Implications of these policies and directions for future research are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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