Hard Time or Idle Time: Factors Affecting Inmate Choices between Participation in Prison Work and Education Programs

The Prison Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-280

  Batchelder, John Stuart ^a   Pippert, J Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 33750726841     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003288550208200206     Document Type: Article

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