Concept information
Preferred term
prison reform
Definition
- organized efforts to improve the conditions of prison and assert the rights of prisoners. [Source: The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice; Prison Reform]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- abolition
- activism
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Angela Y. Davis
- Attica Brothers Defense Fund
- Benjamin Rush
- Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants
- critical resistance
- dorothea lynde dix
- Elizabeth Fry
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- faith-based initiatives
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- fay honey knopp
- felon disenfranchisement
- George Jackson
- hospices
- John Howard
- Kate Richards O'Hare
- Miriam van Waters
- National Prison Project
- November Coalition
- pennsylvania prison society
- Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
- prison monitoring organizations
- Quakers
- Stop Prisoner Rape
- women's advocate ministry
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/prison_reform
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