What Are Prisons For? by Hindpal Singh Bhui
Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achieve the socially useful goals of prisons.
Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui OBE is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons and a Visiting Law Professor at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. He has worked in prisons for over 25 years undertaking hundreds of visits to places of detention around the world. He has also led various thematic reviews on custody in England and Wales, including on foreign prisoners, minority ethnic prisoners, rehabilitative work and immigration detention. He has given evidence to numerous UK parliamentary committees, public inquiries and the European Parliament, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529226898 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529226899 |
| Title | What Are Prisons For? |
| Author | Hindpal Singh Bhui |
| Series | What Is It For? |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press |
| Year published | 2024-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 182 |
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