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Assessing Prison Performance from the Inmates' View: Comparing Private and Public Prisons
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The use of inmate surveys "to differentiate prisons on areas such as gang activity, safety and security, sanitation, and food service delivery" is demonstrated (p. i). The sections that comprise this report are about: data and methods; results -- organizational properties of measures identified, congruence between inmate and staff evaluation; congruence of subject area measures assessed; and Taft (private) and three BOP prisons (public) compared; and discussion and conclusions. Inmate measures seemed to be more reliable than staff measures. Taft was neither better nor worse overall than BOP prisons.