Imprisonment / Noah Berlatsky, editor. - Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2010. - 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Global viewpoints .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Europe, there are four main justifications for imprisonment / New Zealand prisons should be for rehabilitation, not retribution / In Mexico, violence is eroding Catholic attitudes toward punishment / British crime rates would decrease if imprisonment rates increased / Prison should be abolished / Life imprisonment may violate human rights / In India, life sentences are assumed to be for life / In Singapore, juveniles can be detained indefinitely / Honduran juveniles must not be sentenced to adult jails / Canadians support mandatory sentencing with some judicial discretion / In Britain and Germany, innovative sentences increase chances for rehabilitation / Humane treatment of prisoners is guaranteed by international law / In France, prison conditions are deteriorating / Turkey's torture of prisoners may be changing / Zimbabwe's prison conditions are horrible / In South African prisons, rape is widespread / Prisons in Post-Soviet Russia incubate a plague / Australian prisons are ill-equipped to deal with women prisoners / Juveniles in the United States should not be sent to adult prisons / Iran jailed a prominent journalist for criticizing the government / China may be harvesting the organs of political prisoners / In China, identifying political prisoners can facilitate their release / In Cuba, there are fewer political prisoners but more arbitrary arrests / Political protestors in Papua should not be imprisoned / Council of Europe -- Catholic Bishops of New Zealand -- Louis Nevaer -- Civitas -- Peter Collins ... [et al.] -- Dirk van Zyl Smit -- Ipshita Sengupta -- Chong Chee Kin and Teh Joo Lin -- Melissa Ewer -- Julian V. Roberts, Nicole Crutcher, and Paul Verbrugge -- House of Commons Home Affairs Committee -- J.L. Murdoch -- Jean-Marc Rouillan -- Mustafa Akyol -- Jonathan Clayton -- Just Detention International -- Merrill Goozner -- Federation of Community Legal Centres, (Vic) Inc. -- J. Steven Smith -- Golnaz Esfandiari -- David Matas -- Andreas Lorenz -- Dalia Acosta -- Human Rights Watch.

ISBN: 9780737747188 (pbk.) 9780737747171 (hbk.) 073774717X (hbk.) 0737747188 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2009045717

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Imprisonment.

LC Class. No.: HV8705 / .I47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 365