THE ISLAMIC FLARE-UP: VIOLENCE Correction: February 13 , 2006 Monday An article on Wednesday about violence in Afghanistan misstated the rank of James Yonts, chief spokesman for the United States military there.
In describing himself on a paper he had helped write, he told of his "interests in corrections, political violence, and peace and social justice" and said he was also working on a manuscript on "the role of religion in the formation of early prisons in the United States" with two others.
He dismissed arguments by many law enforcers that capital punishment deters prison violence and that it keeps corrections officials safe.
They're dangerous, filthy places where incarcerated people are subject to physical and sexual violence from other inmates and corrections officers.
The relationship between job strain and subsequent violence remained significant even after correction for anxiety, depression, and other confounders.
But as unventilated county jails continue to fill up, some people in corrections say they fear violence or other hazards as the summer's heat approaches.
It is possible that the subjects internalized the idea that education or correction was achieved through violence and thus continued to see their FOO as a haven.
Political will is needed to hold state corrections authorities accountable for criminal violence carried out in state institutions.
The congested prisons and jails engendered hazardous health and safety conditions, inmate idleness and violence, and the increasing government spending on corrections generated public discontent.
In response, the ambassador tweeted: "Numbers may need corrections, but bottom line remains: violence serves no one".
Seabrook tends to place the blame for violence in Rikers on unsafe conditions for corrections officers a contention flatly rejected by local criminal justice reform advocates.
