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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)This thesis uses official reports, legislative documents, and news articles to understand the relationship between incarceration, labor, and the environment. In the nineteenth century reformers, state officials, the general ...
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Constructed Realities in Women's Prisons: From "Beyond Scared Straight" to "Orange is the New Black" (University of Oregon, 2014-06)The show "Orange is the New Black," released by Netflix in 2013 and set in a women's prison, received rave reviews and skyrocketed in popularity. Critics lauded the show as a realistic representation of prison. This paper ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)Adults in U.S. custody suffered from disproportionately high rates of Covid-19 infection and death. This was in part due to a lack of public health interventions within corrections, and in part due to the state of mass ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022)The contemporary juvenile justice system is characterized by a striking racial disparity in which young, Black boys are the most disadvantaged at every level. This dynamic, first, is contextualized by the history of juvenile ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06)This thesis addresses the topic of Ken Kesey's Jail Journal, a fully illustrated narrative poster series that was constructed during the author's 1967 incarceration in the San Mateo County Correctional System. Not published ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)I model a hiring process in which a candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of a firm. Each agent observes an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. I show that if the second agent values a non-productive ...
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From Guantanamo Bay to Pelican Bay: Hunger Striking and the Biopolitical Geographies of Resistance (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In this work I illustrate the ways in which power structures function in operationalizing geographies of resistance in two particular carceral spaces. Specifically I examine the social organization and internal power ...
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The Future of Prison Radio: Does inmate-produced media have a place in the American prison system? (University of Oregon, 2015-06)This project explores the value and influence of National Prison Radio (NPR)—the only national prison radio network in the world, existing only inside 107 British prisons and streaming to 73,000 potential listeners—through ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Over the past 30 years, the U.S. prison population has exploded. With only 5% of the global population, the U.S. now incarcerates more than 25% of the world’s prisoners (ACLU, 2011). This has led to increased attention ...
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(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-04-16)This is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony. The story brilliantly imagines a gruesome killing machine at the epicenter of a mythical prison’s operations. The torture caused by this apparatus comes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022)During a national survey on prison education in 2011, the Institute for Higher Education Policy released a list of thirteen states that they deemed “high-enrollment states” (IHEP, 2011) as a result of their comparatively ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021)This thesis explores how food is a mechanism for constructing identity and community in carceral settings. Drawing from the existing literature, I focus my analysis on noninstitutional foodways – the acquisition, preparation, ...
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