1. According to Jacobs, what is the main problem facing prisons today? Why are prisoner's rights in ruins?
2. In Jacobs' article, he identifies several past and present agents of prison reform, and then points out severe
limitations to each of these approaches to explain why they are insufficient to improve prison conditions
today. The following is a list of sources of prison reform identified by Jacobs -- what are the limitations he
sees to each of these?:
* The Prisoners' Rights Movement of the 1960s - 1980 / prisoner lawsuits
* Prison Riots and Prisoner Protests
* Professionalism / Increased Education of Prison Workers and Administrators
* Privatization
* Non-government/non-profit agencies
3. Based on the limitations of all of these previous sources of reform, what does Jacobs propose we should do to
guarantee humane and constitutionally legal prison conditions? How will this help (i..e. how does it avoid the
limitations of those other sources)?