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Kentucky's Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It's about Money1

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  • Stephen C. Richards
  • James Austin
  • Richard S. Jones

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Kentucky is currently facing a severe budget crisis and is seeking ways to lower its prison and community corrections costs. This article focuses on our study of the prison and parole experience of men and women in Kentucky. What we found is a virtual “perpetual incarceration machine” where prisoners are recycled from prison to parole and back to prison. The following discussion includes: Kentucky's prison population continues to grow, parole failure, methods, description of interview samples, interview data, the structure producing parole failure, and Kentucky's perpetual incarceration mechine. Based on our findings, several promising reforms are recommended that if implemented would serve to reduce the prison population and the rate of parole failure.

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  • Stephen C. Richards & James Austin & Richard S. Jones, 2004. "Kentucky's Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It's about Money1," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 21(1), pages 93-106, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:21:y:2004:i:1:p:93-106
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2004.00060.x
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    1. Miller, J. Mitchell & Shutt, J. Eagle & Bernstein, Barry, 2010. "Offender military enlistment as an emotionally intelligent justice system intervention," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 38(4), pages 376-382, July.

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