by Adam Quirk | Mar 30, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Police, Scholarly Research
To protect and serve: it’s the motto of the brave men and women who choose to be police officers. Last week veteran police detective Jason Weiland was tragically killed in the line of duty, shocking the residents of rural Wisconsin, as well as his fellow law...
by Adam Quirk | Feb 11, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Incarceration, Prison, Uncategorized
America has a significant prison population, which is common knowledge throughout the world, but the reasons behind mass incarceration here are something few understand. Most of us recognize that prisons in the United States are full of inmates, but the actual figures...
by Adam Quirk | Jan 29, 2016 | Criminal Justice
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama expressed his views on solitary confinement in an op-ed piece published by The Washington Post. Solitary confinement is the isolation of an inmate, and is often used as a form of punishment against prisoners. The confined are...
