This study on prisoners' diseases and food conditions in the early days of operation of the Casa de Prisão com Trabalho (labor penitentiary) in Salvador, Bahia, analyzes prisoner strategies for obtaining medical treatment and decent food. In their resistance and struggle to achieve more breathing room within the new prison model, which authorities hoped to implement at Bahia's first penitentiar...

This article explores the relationship between individuals’ media use during incarceration and their re-entry experience. Previous research suggests that mass media may facilitate the transition from prison to the free world because they can normalise life in the penitentiary and keep prisoners informed about major events and developments in society. The findings of a quantitative study into th...

This paper analyzes credit risk for residential mortgages. Estimates of the hazard of mortgage default are presented, based upon a large sample of conventional loans issued in the late 1970s. Mean returns are estimated, together with variances and covariances for various loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and geographic groups. These results are then used to analyze capital requirements for institution...

Needless to say, residential institutions for children vary in size, cost, quality, reason for placement, and many other factors. Even with this diversity, it is possible to find abuse in any institutional setting. Any decision to remove a child from his or her family must be made only after careful deliberation. Each case will have its own special challenge(s) and uniqueness, and improper deci...

This article uses two of the largest children’s residential welfare institutions operating in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a lens through which to explore significance ani...