| Chapter 5 Doing Time What were prisons like before the binge started? How did the demise of rehabilitation happen? What were the early effects of the binge? (crowding, racial skewing, administrative breakdown, etc.) What has been the long term effect? (development of bureaucratic/warehousing). What effects have these changes had on inmates of prisons? (violence, isolation, petty discipline, gangs, "crippled and alienated"). |