The Dark and Evil World of Arkansas Prisons: Transformed Through Federal Court Intervention

By Linda Keena, Andrew Fulkerson, Jack Everitt Dison

The Dark and Evil World of Arkansas Prisons: Transformed Through Federal Court Intervention recounts the transformation of a corrupt, dysfunctional prison system into one consistent with the U.S. Constitution and in line with human standards of decency. The text provides students with a detailed, real-world narrative that reveals the opportunities and challenges involved in criminal justice reform. The text examines how the social, political, and cultural history of Arkansas produced a plantation-type farm prison characterized by inmate labor, violence, and ineffective healthcare. Over the course of 11 chapters, students learn the how prison system operated prior to its reform, the large-scale controversy in the 1960s that initiated the reform of the system, and how the federal courts intervened and forced change on a resistant state legislature. Enlightening and highly practical in nature, The Dark and Evil World of Arkansas Prisons is well suited for courses in prison reform and corrections law.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516581180
• ISBN13: 9781516581184
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"