Prison works?: The government needs to make its mind up about prison, writes Joe Black: is it to be a modern industrialised gulag or a place to modify and control offending behaviour?

Criminal Justice Matters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-7

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EID: 84880447761     PISSN: 09627251     EISSN: 19346220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09627250802476668     Document Type: Article

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