Blogg goes to jail

There are many self-help groups available for prison inmates and their families and victims as outlined http://www.cfcn-rcafd.org/text/cfcn.html Some of the services offered are that of the Canadian Families and Corrections network (or CFCN) Their goal is "Building stronger and safer communities by assisting families affected by criminal behavior, incarceration and community reintegration." This organization offers counseling, virtual tours of the institution, an E-newsletter, and a resource toolkit developed specifically for federally sentenced women and their families as they prepare for reintegration into the family and the community. There are many opportunities for study by a cultural anthropologist in the corrections system. Prisoners are a social group because they are a cluster of people beyond a domestic group related on grounds other than kinship. They represent a primary group, like inmates in the same cell block. Or a secondary group like families and victims of inmates who share a common bond but never meet each other personally.Someone said you can tell a lot about a culture by how they treat their criminals. Rehabilitation not incarceration need be the central focus of our judicial system. Anthropologists may wish to study the correlation between criminal behavior and social stratification. Cultural anthropologists may also wish to study prison culture, rehabilitation, status and roles both inside and outside prison walls.