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Opening Up a Closed World: What Constitutes Effective Prison Oversight?
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Access to videos from this conference's sessions (occurring over two days) is provided at this website. Sessions on April 24, 2006 were: Welcome, Overview, and Session I -- Introduction and Exploration of the Various Functions of Prison Oversight; Session II -- Professionalism in Corrections and the Need for External Scrutiny; Session III -- What Might External Oversight Look Like? Brief Overviews of a Sampling of Inspection Models; Luncheon Address -- The Importance of Dialogue and Collaboration in the Prison Oversight Process; Session IV -- Independence: What does it mean and why is it critical?; and Session V -- Politics and Oversight. Sessions on April 25, 2006 were: Session VI -- Standards; Session VII -- The Role of Citizens and Non-Profit Advocacy Organizations in Providing Oversight; Luncheon Address -- Reflections on 40 years of Outside Scrutiny of Prisons and Prison Policy in the U.S.; Session VIII -- The Role of the Media in Opening Up a Closed World; Session IX -- Oversight of Jails and Private Prisons; and Session X -- Thinking about the Future of Non-Judicial Oversight of Prisons and Jails in the United States.