Source: (2013) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 46:1267-1320.
This Article is the first to analyze prison location and its
relationship to U.S. and international theories of criminal
punishment. Strangely, scholarly literature overlooks criminal
prison designation procedures-the procedures by which a court
or other institution designates the prison facility in which a
recently convicted individual is to serve his or her sentence. This
Article identifies this gap in the literature-the prison location
omission-and fills it from three different vantage points:
(1) U.S. procedural provisions governing prison designation; (2)
international procedural provisions governing prison
designation; and (3) the relationship between imprisonment and
broader theories of criminal punishment. Through comparison
of U.S. and international prison designation systems, this
Article argues that prison location materially advances core
rationales of criminal punishment. (author’s abstract)
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