No Prisoner Left Behind? Enhancing Public Transparency of Penal Institutions

Abstract

Prisoners suffer life-long debilitating effects from their incarceration, making them a subordinated class of people for life. This Article examines how prison conditions facilitate the creation and maintenance of a permanent underclass and concludes that enhancing transparency is the first step towards equality. Antisubordination efforts led to enhanced transparency in schools, a similar but not identical institution. This Article argues that federal school transparency measures provide a rudimentary and balanced framework for enhancing prison transparency through the collection of specific institutional data.

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Publisher:
Stanford University Stanford, California
Citation(s):
  • Andrea C. Armstrong, No Prisoner Left Behind? Enhancing Public Transparency of Penal Institutions, vol 25 Stanford Law & Policy Review 435 (2014).
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