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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / On 15December 2011, the now ousted South African President Jacob Zuma officiated the opening of the Gallows Memorial Museum at the Pretoria Central Correctional Facility, a project undertaken by the Department of Correctional Services. This Project saw the gallows at what was previously Pretoria Central Maximum (C-Max) Prison, which had been dismantled in 1996 following the abolition of the death penalty in South Africa, restored and reopened as a museum. At the top of the notorious 52 steps that condemned prisoners climbed to reach the execution room, the then president unveiled a dedicated wall with individualised plaques for each of the political prisoners who had died there between 1960 and 1989. “Today” the president announced, “all 134 names are officially being enshrined for eternity so that future generations will know what this country went through, so that we never go through a similar horror ever again. The Museum is meant to act as an anti-death penalty monument, to honour the anti-apartheid activists who were hanged by the apartheid state and to encourage “healing.” This was to be “a place where the political prisoners who were hanged there can be honoured and the past can be buried. Reflecting the African National Congress (hereafter ANC)- centered dominant narrative of resistance in South Africa, Zuma emphasised the executions of ANC cadres. He failed to note that the Pan Africanist Congress was the organisation that had lost the greatest number of its members to judicial executions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:22:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JONATAS DIAS TEIXEIRA.pdf: 1483328 bytes, checksum: 5b7918ea7c2ea7cde5de594deba2ef55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-11 / This thesis investigates how power is installed, structured, organized and maintained among individuals serving a prison term in a correctional facility in the State of Goiás. For this purpose, the paper prioritizes the analysis of the psychological and social processes implicated in structuring the mechanisms of power in the context of such a facility. This investigation was developed by means of an exploratory survey, comprised of predominantly qualitative procedures, such as interviews and observations, complemented by document research. Facility managers, agents and administrative workers were interviewed in an informal setting. Five individuals serving prison terms were also interviewed. The semi-structured interviews used a previously tested script created on the basis of categories whose purpose was to understand process mediations involved in constituting and structuring power. After analyzing the interviews, observations and documents it is possible to conclude that there is a multi-determined and many times secrete process at play for constituting and structuring power in a correctional facility, within the context of the relationships established among inmates. Such a process presents itself, mostly, as both natural and necessary. Power is structured around inmates, based on the individual characteristics of each inmate in this institutional context; and also around other human resources, more connected to the administrative and functional structure of the correctional facility, reproducing a constitutional logic of power, very close in nature to that developed by inmates. Therefore, one can not speak of a power, which is single and exclusive, but of micro powers, which subject everyone and are exercised constantly and uninterruptedly, thereby acquiring unique characteristics, according to the organization dynamics of life within a correctional facility. / O presente trabalho investiga os processos de constituição, estruturação, organização e manutenção do poder entre indivíduos mantidos em regime fechado no interior de uma penitenciária no Estado de Goiás. Para tanto, privilegia a análise dos processos psicossociais implicados na estruturação dos mecanismos de poder no contexto carcerário. Para desenvolver essa investigação foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória com procedimentos predominantemente qualitativos, como entrevistas e observações, complementados de pesquisa documental. Foram entrevistados informalmente gestores, agentes e funcionários administrativos. Com cinco sujeitos, mantidos em regime fechado. foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas a partir de um roteiro previamente testado e elaborado com base em categorias intencionadas a apreender mediações do processo de constituição e estruturação do poder. A análise das entrevistas, observações e documentos permitem concluir que o processo de constituição e estruturação do poder no interior da penitenciária é multi determinado, se processa muitas vezes de modo oculto nas relações estabelecidas entre internos e apresenta-se prioritariamente como algo natural e necessário. O poder se estrutura tanto sobre recursos internos, fundamentando-se em características individuais de cada interno no contexto institucional; quanto de recursos externos, mais vinculados à estrutura administrativa e funcional da penitenciária que reproduz uma lógica de constituição de poder muito próxima daquela que é desenvolvida pelos internos. Dessa forma, não se pode falar em poder, único e exclusivo, mas em micro poderes, aos quais todos estão submetidos e que são exercidos constante e ininterruptamente, adquirindo características próprias de acordo com a dinâmica da organização da vida dentro da penitenciária.

Nurses comprise the largest segment of the healthcare workforce. Adequate numbers of nurses help to ensure sufficient and safe nursing care in all settings. The current nursing shortage poses a barrier to optimum nursing care, and the nature of recruitment and retention of nurses has generated research interest because of its association with the labor shortage. The purpose of the project was to develop a nurse mentorship program for possible adoption by a northern state correctional facility. Goals are to aid recruitment and improve retention of nurses in the facility. This quality improvement project was informed by Jean Watson's theory of transpersonal caring. Program development was guided by a team of interdisciplinary stakeholders in the institution, including a nurse educator, institutional directors of both education and nursing departments, and senior staff nurses who agreed agreeing to function as project coordinators. The peer-reviewed literature and institutional contexts informed program conceptualization and planning for implementation and planning. A series of meetings were held in which the project team explored and discussed available evidence relative to institutional context and needs. The primary product of the project was a mentoring program, and secondary products include plans for implementation and evaluation of that program by the institution in the future as part of a broader institutional initiative. The developed program was shared with 5 nurse scholars with relevant expertise as a content validation process, with revisions made in accordance with feedback. The implementation and evaluation plans include all details necessary for operationalizing as well as evaluating merit and worth of the program over time.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-171).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-171).

There has been an increase in the number of individuals with mental illness being housed in correctional facilities over the last 50 years. In this study, the length of pretrial detention was compared for inmates who have a mental illness and are compliant with psychiatric medications, inmates who have a mental illness and are noncompliant or not prescribed psychiatric medication, and inmates with no mental illness. I also examined if inmates who have a mental illness have less severe charges and if there was a difference in the classification of mental health diagnoses for inmates who are and are not compliant with psychiatric medications. The study used the closed charts of 427 male inmates from 1 county jail in New Jersey from the year 2016. The theoretical foundation of this study is Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, as it is believed that the basic physiological and safety needs should be met in order to provide mental health treatment. A combination 1-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) and chi-squared analysis was used to examine the data. It was concluded that inmates with mental illness who are medication compliant are incarcerated significantly longer pretrial than inmates with no mental illness. It was also found that there was a difference in the types of charges received between those with and without a mental illness. Lastly, the study found that there was no significant difference between each of the classifications of mental illness when comparing inmates with mental illness who are and are not compliant with psychiatric medications. The implication for positive social change is the benefits to the inmates with mental illness and the correctional facilities, as it confirms that inmates with a mental illness require more tailored and treatment specific services for a longer period of time.

Prisons provide us with a place to segregate criminals from the population at large, but the ongoing question is what to do with them once we have incarcerated them? On one side there is the idea that prisons should be used to punish those who have broken the law. On the other is the idea that prisons should help to rehabilitate prisoners so that they may be reintegrated into society upon their release. The purpose of this study was to examine the role correctional education programs played in the life of female offenders in light of the debate mentioned above. Based on qualitative research, the aim of this study was to listen to the prisoner's voice. What did inmates think about correctional education programs offered? Did they want such programs? Did they feel empowered by them, or did they resist being 'rehabilitated' and feign compliance? How did inmates make sense of their learning experience?