1. Univ 200: Source Log Assignment
Aleigh Logan

2. Subtopic 1: Does US really have a problem with mass incarceration without rehabilitation?

3. Crime and Punishment in America Elliott Currie -Professor of Criminology and Law and Society, Ph.D from University of California and Berkeley
This article actually explains the over crowdedness of the United States prisons.
Currie gives a lot of numbers and years and compares them to those of European countries.
His article breaks down the whys and how’s of the United States prison system.
THIS ARTICLE HELPS ME ARGUE/EXPLAIN WHY IN SOME TYPE OF WAY WHY THE UNITED STATE’S COURT SYSTEM IS SET UP IN THIS WAY.

4. Rehabilitate or Punish
Rehabilitate or Punish? By Etienne Benson -historian of science, technology, and of environment at University of Pennsylvania; research focuses on relationships between humans and animals and on the history of environmentalism and environmental sciences; PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society -information is medical based and uses knowledge about crime in the 1970s
This article give me some reasons why the United State’s prisons are constructed the way they are. Also, give me the fact that they haven’t always been this bad and gives a mental health side of the situation for prisoners.
Benson (2003), “United States has more than 2 million people in prisons or jails— the equivalent of one in every 142 U.S. residents—and another four to five million people on probation or parole.”
In the article Robert Morgan, a psychologist at Texas Tech says that because the focus is on “basic mental health services that there’s not enough time or emphasis on rehabilitative services.”
Stanford Prison Experiment:
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THAT BECAUSE OF THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF ANY INMATE IS STILL AS IMPORTANT AS ANYBODY ELSE THAT STEPS CAN BE TAKEN TO FIX OUR SYSTEM. ALSO, THE PRISON SYSTEM IS BEING OVER POPULATED AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE EMPLOYED ARE BEING OVERWORKED, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE MORE INMATES TO THE RATIO OF EMPLOYED PSYCHOLOGIST.

5. Identifying Businesses that Profit From Labor Bob Sloan -former public offender, Stop ALEC organizer, has spent years doing research on PIE program
This article defines how a corporation is defined in using inmate labor into 3 categories.
He breaks apart or how the system works and give specific everyday corporations that we use.
Also this article doesn’t only explain how their directly associated with this but also indirectly.
THIS SOURCE HELPS TO ARGUE THAT PRIVATE CORPORATIONS DO PROFIT OFF OF MASS INCARCERATION.

6. Lessons from European Prisons
Lessons from European Prisons. NYT Editorial Board -The editorial board which is made up of 16 journalists whom all have a wide range of backgrounds
Got an inside look and actually visited the prison in Germany
It proves my point that rehabilitation is a possible thing for the United States to try.
Should the US look into doing a trial run of rehabilitation?
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE UNITED STATES TO USE THIS METHOD OF REHABLILITATION.

7. Subtopic 2: Is the European countries that use rehabilitation successful?

8. Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works
Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works. James Gilligan -clinical professor of psychiatry and an adjunct professor of law at New York University, author -liberal bias
This article argues for my question that punishment does nothing to help an inmate.
Gilligan (2012) states that, “two-thirds of prisoners reoffend within three years of leaving prison, often with a more serious and violent offense.” This brings up another question that maybe punishment makes inmates more criminal than they really are.
This article raises another question of “How could we change our prison system to make it both more effective and less expensive?” and gives examples.
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE ACTUAL WAYS THAT CAN BE USED TO HAVE A REHABILATATIVE SYSTEMS INSTEAD OF PUNISHMENT.

9. Does the rehabilitation continue after the prisoner leaves?
The Norwegian Prison Where Inmates are Treated Like People Erwin James -served 20 years of a life sentence in prison; • The Guardian had actually been writing columns on him for 9 years; degree in history and reputation in being a good writer
Uses inside sources, that actually have experience being in this type of prison/rehabilitation system.
The writer actually visited the prison rehabilitation that is being written about in the article.
It gives me proof that its such thing as a prison rehabilitation system that helps prisoners instead of confining them.
What programs do the prisoners go through to get them to this state of rehabilitation?
Does the rehabilitation continue after the prisoner leaves?
What are the results of these programs?
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO TYPES OF MODELS.

10. Lessons from European Prisons
Lessons from European Prisons. NYT Editorial Board -The editorial board which is made up of 16 journalists whom all have a wide range of backgrounds
Got an inside look and actually visited the prison in Germany
It proves my point that rehabilitation is a possible thing for the United States to try.
Should the US look into doing a trial run of rehabilitation?
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THAT EVEN PEOPLE WHO WORK CLOSELY WITH THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, SUCH AS JUDGES AND PROSECUTERS, BELIEVE THERE COULD BE A CHANGE IN HOW OUT PRISONS WORK.

11. Norwegian Prisons Rehabilitate Criminal Offenders Katrine Vellesen -Norway’s youngest woman professor of economics, research concentrates on family economy while using large administrative datasets -the website concentrates on the sciences discipline
The article incorporates the research that Vellesen (2016) found during a project being conducted to find “the extent to which former inmates have returned to work.”
The information came from the courts.
What’s interesting about the study is that Vellesen (2016) it studied “the effect of what happens when the criminals have received different penalties for the offense” just because they had different judges.
THIS ARTICLE HELPS ME ARGUE THE EFFECTS OF THE NORWEIGIAN REHABILITATION SYSTEM WITH AN ACTUAL PROJECT EXECUTED.

12. Subtopic 3: Is there anything the United States’ system can learn from these countries’ model?

13. Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works
Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works. James Gilligan -clinical professor of psychiatry and an adjunct professor of law at New York University, author -liberal bias
This article argues for my question that punishment does nothing to help an inmate.
Gilligan (2012) states that, “two-thirds of prisoners reoffend within three years of leaving prison, often with a more serious and violent offense.” This brings up another question that maybe punishment makes inmates more criminal than they really are.
This article raises another question of “How could we change our prison system to make it both more effective and less expensive?” and gives examples.
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THAT COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES’ MODEL, THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES’ MODEL IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN INMATES LIVES.

14. Does the rehabilitation continue after the prisoner leaves?
The Norwegian Prison Where Inmates are Treated Like People Erwin James -served 20 years of a life sentence in prison; • The Guardian had actually been writing columns on him for 9 years; degree in history and reputation in being a good writer
Uses inside sources, that actually have experience being in this type of prison/rehabilitation system.
The writer actually visited the prison rehabilitation that is being written about in the article.
It gives me proof that its such thing as a prison rehabilitation system that helps prisoners instead of confining them.
What programs do the prisoners go through to get them to this state of rehabilitation?
Does the rehabilitation continue after the prisoner leaves?
What are the results of these programs?
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE AND EXPRESS THE ATTITUDE OFF ACTUAL INMATES THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED A TRADITIONAL PRISON AND A REHABILITIVE PRISON.

15. Lessons from European Prisons
Lessons from European Prisons. NYT Editorial Board -The editorial board which is made up of 16 journalists whom all have a wide range of backgrounds
Got an inside look and actually visited the prison in Germany
It proves my point that rehabilitation is a possible thing for the United States to try.
Should the US look into doing a trial run of rehabilitation?
THIS SOURCE ALLOWS ME TO ARGUE THAT EVEN PEOPLE WHO WORK CLOSELY WITH THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, SUCH AS JUDGES AND PROSECUTERS, BELIEVE THERE COULD BE A CHANGE IN HOW OUT PRISONS WORK.