prison reform
Changing jail systems
Prison reform is the movement to improve conditions, policies, and practices within the criminal justice system, particularly regarding incarceration.
Advocates push for changes ranging from better treatment of inmates to reduced sentences, alternatives to imprisonment, or abolition of certain practices: Prison reform has gained bipartisan support in recent years.
The term encompasses efforts addressing overcrowding, rehabilitation programs, sentencing guidelines, and prisoner rights.
- paroleConditional early release
- early releasePremature freedom from confinement
- recidivism reductionLowering repeat offense rates
- penal systemFramework for punishing lawbreakers
- probationSupervised trial period
inmate · behind bars · doing time · alternative sentencing · inmate rights · abolitionism · reentry programs · second chance · correctional facilities · mental health services · conditional release · good behavior · criminal justice · restorative justice · vocational training · transitional housing · life without parole · penitentiary
- reformreformer, reformist, structural change, overhaul, revision
- penologypenology, parole board, corrections officers, corrections, penal system
- judicial reformjudicial independence, judicial appointments, judicial conduct, judicial ethics, court procedure
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, crime, guilty
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prisoner, warden
- prisonsinmates, cells, prisoner, penitentiary, guards
prison reformstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
tough on crime · mass incarceration · law and order · prison-industrial complex · anti-reform
prison reformretribution
Punishment for wrongdoing
zero tolerance · throw away the key · retributive justice · mandatory minimums · chain gangs
prison reformmass incarceration
Excessive imprisonment at scale
decarceration · prison industrial complex · abolition · prison privatization
reform, prison, reformed, reforms, reforming, prisons, incarceration