The Debate over Prison Management

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This paper briefly examines how faulty argumentation diminishes the published works of seven authors who have, at various times, taken it upon themselves to write at length about prison management in the modern world. The paper examines items such as loaded terminology, strained analogies, improper appeals to emotion and the questionable authoritativeness and authenticity of the sources these individuals have drawn upon. In the final analysis, the paper concludes that each of these works is fatally compromised as a result.

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"There can be little question that the management of penal institutions has been a controversial issue for many decades. This paper will examine the available literature - in particular, seven relatively well-publicized works by various writers - and attempt to determine to what extent these authors are engaging in fallacious argumentation or in faulty logic. Ultimately, what should emerge from the pages of this brief paper is an understanding of how disingenuous or simplistic argumentation can devalue even the sincerest convictions. Inductive Errors, Bias, and fallacies Jonathon Simon's article on Prison Management is an interesting instance of faulty statistical bias."

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