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200: The Science of Prison

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4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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To mark 200 episodes of Sci Guys we're tackling studies on incarceration, and asking the question: Does prison work?

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References & Further Reading
Prison Basics 
  1. https://www.britannica.com/topic/prison
  2. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf
  3. https://prisonreformtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Prison-the-facts-2022.pdf
  4. https://www.gov.uk/life-in-prison/prisoner-privileges-and-rights
Does Prison Work?
  1. https://youtu.be/BsTIHo-_A1k
  2. https://youtu.be/4iEcL6TVw9g
  3. https://youtu.be/BXSv2nO5LeM
  4. https://youtu.be/6mMwrS30XT8
  5. https://www.law.ac.uk/resources/blog/is-prison-effective/
  6. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/prison-reform-and-alternatives-to-imprisonment.html
  7. https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/faculty-of-social-sciences/documents/wolverhampton-law-journal/edition-4/(2020)-4-WLJ-64.pdf
  8. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-prisons-make-us-safer/
  9. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html#:~:text=Together%2C%20these%20systems%20hold%20almost,centers%2C%20state%20psychiatric%20hospitals%2C%20and
Stanford Prison Experiment 
  1. https://youtu.be/KND_bBDE8RQ
  2. https://nypost.com/2018/06/14/famed-stanford-prison-experiment-was-a-fraud-scientist-says/
Working in Prison
  1. https://uklabourlawblog.com/2022/12/12/pay-for-work-in-prison-by-virginia-mantouvalou/#:~:text=A%20freedom%20of%20information%20request,that%20send%20work%20to%20prisons.
  2. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/prisoners-labour-shortages/
  3. https://uklabourlawblog.com/2022/12/12/pay-for-work-in-prison-by-virginia-mantouvalou/#:~:text=A%20freedom%20of%20information%20request,that%20send%20work%20to%20prisons.
Prison & Mental Health
  1. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/inm.12733
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008459/
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311616/
  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311616/
  5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32258357/
  6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26330175/
Alternatives to Prison
  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/29/prison-release-covid-pandemic-incarceration/
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/16/we-know-that-prison-doesnt-work-so-what-are-the-alternatives
  3. https://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/FS-Alternatives-in-a-Nutshell.pdf
Autism Study
  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/

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0:47.5

I'm Corey and as always I'm joined by my co-host, the lovely Luke Cutfer.

0:51.5

Oh, that's very nice. Thank you.

1:02.9

Thank you. This week, we are talking about inefficient incarceration.

1:07.2

But first, we have a Spotify update.

1:08.7

Okay.

1:09.6

So, we have had over 1,183,000 streams, which is insane.

1:17.3

Just on Spotify?

1:18.2

Just on Spotify.

1:18.9

That's too much.

1:19.8

Over 81,000 listeners on Spotify and over 45,000 followers.

1:24.1

We hit 45,607.

1:26.6

That's amazing.

1:27.4

That's Matt, right? So if everyone who follows us on Spotify

1:30.0

tells a friend to follow us on Spotify and then some of them tell some of their friends to follow us on

1:34.6

Spotify, we'll have over 100,000 followers on Spotify. If we do it six times, we reach everyone in the

1:38.6

world. We should do that. Everyone tells six. No, no, no, no, no. Hang on. No, if everyone tells everyone they know six times, we meet, we reach everyone in the world.

1:49.6

Sorry, got the math wrong there.

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