Louis Sachar

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

American Author

Conrad Black

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

British Businessman

Dirk Kempthorne

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

American Politician

Eazy-E

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

American Musician

Used in discussions about crime and legal systems, often indicating a focus on changing behavior.

Legal Context

Refers to places where people are sent as punishment, like prisons or juvenile halls.

Institutional Use

Implies an emphasis on rehabilitation, aiming to prevent future crimes.

Reform Over Punishment

Indicates actions taken to improve or rectify a situation, behavior, or performance.

Positive Change

Not necessarily about punishment; can be about making things right or fixing errors.

Not Always Punitive

Targets enhancements in processes, systems, or behavior, usually based on past learnings.

Improvement Focused

 flash bangs, emergency response teams. We met violence with force and chaos with chaos. We were pretty good at putting out fires. While I was there, I met two experienced correctional workers who were also researchers, an anthropologist and a sociologist. One day, one of them commented to me and said,

Dan Pacholke: How...

 and puts them in a hostile environment, and the correctional officers pretty much allow any and everything to go on. There's not really much for these young people to do to actually enhance their talent and actually rehabilitate them. Until we can raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18,

Ismael Nazario: What I...

 alone in a cell the size of a small bathroom. Virtually every aspect of his life occurs in that cell. But aside from sleeping and eating, which he does within an arm's reach of his toilet, there aren't many aspects of life. Correctional officers push food trays through slots in the doors

What happens to people...

 was a reenactment that correctional officers were photographing as evidence of what and what an altercation could look like so working on all of these photographic projects and thinking about stories encouraged me to work on a very different kind of storytelling project

Storytellers Summit Day...

 Correctional Institution allows inmates to look at nature videos for an hour in their recreation yard to voluntarily to lower their stress and violence one inmate I spoke with a notorious gang member notoriously violent said that

Nature is the...

 Young people on this journey are meeting with probation officers instead of with teachers. They're going to court dates instead of to class. Their junior year abroad is instead a trip to a state correctional facility.

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 on the premises of the Ethan Allen juvenile correctional institution. It took all day, and the prisoners had a great time. So what does this mean? I mean, the question I ask myself, why does this happen in nature?

Kees Moeliker: How a...

 You're a class B felon, lifetime sex offender. You are a very, very, very bad person. And you did a very, very, very bad thing. And so that's just programmed into you. And you go through the correctional system

Shereen El-Feki: How to...

 how did I move from working in the respected financial banking sector, having worked so hard in school, to now being locked up in the largest correctional facility

What I learned serving...

 I was sentenced to a decade of punishment in a correctional institution. I was sentenced to irrelevance -- the opposite of humanity. Interestingly,