Communicating with Prisoners

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Prisoners Out of Sight, Out of Mind for Public
Dec 1, 2009 · original
In 2003, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, addressing a large and important meeting of lawyers, declared: When the prisoner is taken away, our attention turns to the next case. When the door is locked against the prisoner, we do not think about what is behind it. … As a profession, as a people, we should know what happens after the prisoner is taken away. … Out of sight, out of mind is an unacceptable excuse for a prison system that incarcerates over two million human beings in the United States. ^ In 1869, a book containing a woman’s first-person account of her experience as a matron of a woman’s prison was published in New York. That book ended with an urgent appeal: Every one who has the cause of humanity at heart will echo the cry, open the doors of our prisons, as the doors of other public institutions are thrown open, so that those who support them may have an opportunity to inspect th
Sentences to Imprisonment Ignore Communication
Dec 1, 2009 · original
In the U.S., a statutorily driven shift over the past twenty-five years to much less judicial discretion in sentencing has emphasized punishment being represented as months of imprisonment . Probation, parole, and other alternative sanctions imply different communication capabilities for persons being punished. Developments in communication technologies have greatly expanded possibilities for communicating with prisoners. Nonetheless, across the world, prisoners’ communication opportunities have had little importance in thinking about sentencing and punishment. Equal sentences to months of imprisonment can lead to large inequalities in punishment. Imagine José, an illiterate immigrant not speaking the dominant local language, married, with five children and with a low-paying job as a dishwasher in a bustling city restaurant. He is imprisoned in a rural area more than 250 miles away from
Personal Communication with Prisoners is Publicly Significant
Dec 1, 2009 · original
Public policy toward communication with prisoners would benefit from more appreciation for ordinary practices of communication. A recent philosophical analysis of criminal punishment argued: criminal punishment should be conceived of as a communicative enterprise that aims to communicate to offenders the censure they deserve for their crimes, and thus to bring them to repent their crimes, to reform themselves, and to reconcile themselves with those they have wronged. ^ Such communication primarily concerns authoritative communication with the person being punished. Authoritative communication with prisoners conveys to them social rules that they must obey. Authorities’ communication with prisoners might also help to generate knowledge useful for authorities designing rehabilitation programs . Such communication clearly serves, at least formally, the public interest. Much communication is
Public Discourse Concerning Prisoners’ Communication
Jan 1, 2010 · original
Public discourse has not fully valued prisoners’ communication with their families and friends in the free world. In the nineteenth century, imprisonment became the predominate form of punishment in industrializing countries. Philosophers, philanthropists, politicians, religious and civic leaders, and government bureaucrats sought public knowledge about prison conditions and vigorously discussed the effects of prison design and administration . They determined isolation, solitude, and silence to be the best treatment for prisoners. Early nineteenth-century public deliberation about penal policy focused on the value, cost, and means of eliminating prisoners’ communication with other prisoners. Prisoners’ communication with family and friends was scarcely a topic of discussion. Compared to communication among prisoners, prisoners’ communication with family and friends relates more tangenti
Visiting Peregrinus Proteus in Jail
Jan 1, 2010 · original
About 1850 years ago, Peregrinus Proteus, a philosopher and publicity-seeker, was thrown into jail. This event “set him up for his future career: now he had standing, a magic aura, and the public notice he was so passionately in love with.” Followers and friends, some traveling from far way, visited him in jail and offered him advice and consolation. They brought him full-course dinners, spent nights in jail with him, and “money poured in from them; he picked up a very nice income this way.” Apparently concerned that punishment only served Peregrinus’ interests, a government official with appreciation for philosophy put an end to his imprisonment: Peregrinus was released from jail by the governor of Syria. The governor had a penchant for philosophy and, fully aware that Peregrinus was enough of a lunatic to welcome death that would give him a martyr’s acclaim, set him free without consid

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