The Survivability Hierarchy Behind Bars: Themes, Reforms, and Prevention Program Evaluations in Washington State Jail Suicides

Across jails nationwide, suicide remains the leading cause of death. Suicide has been the leading cause of death for U.S. jail inmates for over 40 years. In Washington State, suicide accounts for 47% of all jail fatalities while incarcerated. To address this critical issue, the U.S. Justice Department set best practices for jails to follow for suicide prevention programs in 1989. Yet, these best practices have not reduced the disproportionate rate of jail suicides. Far from a decrease, suicide deaths for jail inmates rose 13% in the last 20 years. This dissertation involved three methods of analysis for this critical issue. First, a thematic analysis was conducted on all suicide jail death records in Washington State from 2004 to 2021. Second, a dataset of 29 Washington State jails’ suicide prevention and training policies was evaluated. These policies were scored according to their adherence to the best practices for jail suicide prevention. Scores were correlated with jail-specific suicide rates (in deaths per 100,000 residents) to determine whether best practice adherence was associated with disproportionately low suicide rates. Finally, a narrative analysis was conducted on project-wide themes. Results suggested that though many factors in best practices were associated with individual jail suicides, best practice adherence was not actually associated with jails’ suicide rate on a systemic level. Implications from these results include problems with implementing on-the-books policy by correctional staff, and the possibility that current best practices, nearly 35 years old, may no longer be the most effective components of jail suicide prevention

Sheep Replace Pronghorn: An Environmental History of the Mono Basin

This article examines the ways in which the hunting-gathering people of the Mono Basin lived before their way of life and environment was overturned by the nineteenth-century arrival of Euro-American settlers with vastly different ways of interacting with the environment. And it tracks some of these alterations by tracking when and how sheep replaced pronghorns

Criticism of contemporary literature in English periodicals, 1700-1760

The eighteenth century probably will be called the age of reason and classicism as long as English literature is studied. Reason prevailed not only in literature but in almost all of the phases of life; religion, politics, social intercourse and domestic relations, all were brought under the sway of reason. “A literature which is essentially rational is not the work of a generation; it can come fully into its own, be securely established, only after a process of increment, through which the average instincts have been adapted to it, and every predictable difficulty has been smothered away. One may say that the age of Pope lives more fully, more spontaneously at the pitch of that dominant intellectuality, which during the preceding age was chiefly an irresistible impulse, a kind of contagious intoxication. The Restoration had turned Reason herself into a free, adventures guide; classicism now makes her a clear and calm advisor.” Clearness and calmness, those two words seem to describe the ideals of the writers of the first half of the century. To them the two words are inseparable; clearness of thought and calmness of expression are to be the important criteria in the producing of their own works and in the judging of the works of their contemporaries

Dispossessed Again: Paiute Land Allotments in the Mono Basin, 1907-1929

Like most California Indians, the Kutzadikaa people in the Mono Basin on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains were dispossessed of their land in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, they were not then removed to a reservation. They were left landless with no rights to reclaim their land until the Dawes Act (1887) made land allotments to non-reservation Indians possible. This article explores the history of land allotments in the Mono Basin, and places that story into the broader context of U.S. assimilationist policies but more importantly into the context of local history. Kutzadikaa (later called Piute or Paiute) had to maneuver the land and water bureaucracies of the U. S. federal and California state governments, as well as the larger winds of capitalist development in an arid environment that commercialized land and water rights. Those Paiuteswho received allotments worked hard to farm and ranch them, but within a decade of receiving their allotment they faced pressures to sell their them to Euro-American landowners who had come to monopolize land and water rights in the Mono Basi

Flipping The Classroom: Turning An Instructional Methods Course Upside Down

Higher education and teacher education in particular are entering a time of transformation.  With major forces like shifting demographics, new technologies, and the move from an industrial to an information society, teacher educators need not only to prepare teachers for new ways of teaching, but also must adopt and model best practices for these new teaching methods.  This study examines how several key strategies from Flipped Classroom theory can be adapted to an instructional methods course.  Findings show that with careful curriculum design, both content and methods learning objectives can be taught and mastered with Flipped Classroom methods

Mr. Clover Goes to Washington: Land, Water, and Fraud in the Mono Basin, 1910-1945

The water woes of the Mono Basin of the Eastern Sierra region of California did not begin when Los Angeles\u27 Department of Water and Power began to purchase water rights there in the early twentieth century. Robert Marks argues persuasively that James B. Clover\u27s water schemes predated, and in a sense, opened the way for Los Angeles later to tap Sierran snowmelt and funnel it down to Southern California

Perry B Marks • Artist Statement

My work cuts through the distractions and travesties of modern American life, revealing the nonsense that multinational corporations spew. Consumption as a way of life is now a familiar part of the global culture. Political and corporate icons have made their way into individual identity by means of branding, product placement and crossover promotion. They are ubiquitous, embedded in myriad experiences to attract, entertain and satisfy artificially stimulated appetites. Similar to placating drugs, they function like the bread and circuses of the Roman Empire. My process breaks down elements and symbols from the past and present, remixing old and new to create another level of complexity. Media bombardment serves up a steady diet of mind-numbing hindrance. My work is a glitch in the system, a hiccup in the normal. With no formula or recipe to follow, I make work that provokes a memory or an engaging experience. I am attracted to absurdity, I don’t always go looking for it but I keep running into it. The ludicrous often finds its way into my work, creating a stop-the-clock moment. Viewer are caught in the crossfire where the humorous and serious subjects commingle and new thoughts are stimulated

Study and production of polybenzimidazole billets, laminates, and cylinders

Mechanical properties and physical, chemical, and thermal tests of polybenzimidazole and carbon fabric laminates for spacecraft thermal insulatio