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Reducing the Intra-Institutional Effects of "Prisonization"

A Study of a Therapeutic Community for Drug-Using Inmates

New Mexico State University

L. THOMAS WINFREE, Jr.

New Mexico State University

"Prisonization," or prison socialization, has long been recognized as a process with goals that are antithetical to the reintegration of ex-offenders. That is, it deemphasizes and even denigrates legitimate authority and middle-class values. Prison-based therapeutic communities, on the other hand, are intended to improve the attitudes and orientations of participants. This research examines three groups within a single-prison community — general-population inmates, therapeutic-community participants (TC inmates), and inmates eligible for the TC ("wannabes")—in order to determine the extent to which levels of prisonization can be used to predict group membership.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 2, 206-225 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854892019002007


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