Prison Riot Prosecution

Author : R. Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349235872

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Prison Riots in Britain and the USA, 2nd ed by R. Adams Pdf

'This is among the handful of prison books - they include George Jackson's Soledad Brother and BB Michael Ignatieff's A Just Measure of Pain - which moves and informs. The sociology of prison riots,MM the causes of outbreak and the nature of the reactions, are subjects which have been largely ignored and need to be understood by those who either study criminal justice or work in the system.' - His Honour Judge Stephen Tumin This challenging book is essential reading for everyone with an interest in penal policy and practice. It uses extensive documentary evidence to demonstrate that prison riots in Britain and the US have shifted from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation. The book illustrates the violent nature both of many prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons which goes beyond the patterns of confrontation which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Prison riots
ISBN : OCLC:10585987

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Prison Riot Prosecution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519598696

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The Attica Prison Riot by Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the riot by inmates, hostages, and state officials *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "If we can't live as men, we sure as hell can die as men." - A prisoner in Attica In 1971, America was still undergoing plenty of social turmoil, much of it the result of sweeping changes made via the Civil Rights Movement of the previous decade and the Vietnam War, which helped spark the counterculture. Students had been shot at Kent State by the National Guard the year before, and protests were still prominent across the country. One of the movements galvanized during this time was on behalf of the nation's prisoners, who were often subjected to shoddy treatment in state penitentiaries and subjected to racist treatment, but that was naturally on the backburner for most Americans who remained free until the notorious Attica State Prison riot from September 9-13, 1971. The unfolding drama, during which over 2,000 prison inmates began an uprising inside the well-fortified facility and held dozens of staff hostage, transfixed America until the insurrection was violently put down and over 40 were dead. In the wake of the riot, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had ordered the rebellion put down, accused the prisoners of committing "the cold-blood killings they had threatened from the outset," but others saw it from a far different perspective. While the New York Times characterized it in a more evenhanded fashion and bemoaned the "mass deaths that four days of taut negotiations had sought to avert," the prisoners were often portrayed as taking a heroic and righteous stand against the system. Perhaps the most famous representation of the riot was its commemoration in John Lennon's "Attica State," during which he sang, "We're all mates with Attica State." To this day, nearly 45 years later, the riot continues to be controversial. The Attica Prison Riot: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Prison Uprising chronicles the fateful chain of events that led to the most notorious prison insurrection in American history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Attica like never before, in no time at all.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985024020

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The Attica Prison Riot by Charles River Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the riot by inmates, hostages, and state officials *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "If we can't live as men, we sure as hell can die as men." - A prisoner in Attica In 1971, America was still undergoing plenty of social turmoil, much of it the result of sweeping changes made via the Civil Rights Movement of the previous decade and the Vietnam War, which helped spark the counterculture. Students had been shot at Kent State by the National Guard the year before, and protests were still prominent across the country. One of the movements galvanized during this time was on behalf of the nation's prisoners, who were often subjected to shoddy treatment in state penitentiaries and subjected to racist treatment, but that was naturally on the backburner for most Americans who remained free until the notorious Attica State Prison riot from September 9-13, 1971. The unfolding drama, during which over 2,000 prison inmates began an uprising inside the well-fortified facility and held dozens of staff hostage, transfixed America until the insurrection was violently put down and over 40 were dead. In the wake of the riot, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had ordered the rebellion put down, accused the prisoners of committing "the cold-blood killings they had threatened from the outset," but others saw it from a far different perspective. While the New York Times characterized it in a more evenhanded fashion and bemoaned the "mass deaths that four days of taut negotiations had sought to avert," the prisoners were often portrayed as taking a heroic and righteous stand against the system. Perhaps the most famous representation of the riot was its commemoration in John Lennon's "Attica State," during which he sang, "We're all mates with Attica State." To this day, nearly 45 years later, the riot continues to be controversial. The Attica Prison Riot: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Prison Uprising chronicles the fateful chain of events that led to the most notorious prison insurrection in American history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Attica like never before, in no time at all.

Author : Eamonn Carrabine
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Imprisonment
ISBN : 0754621723

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Power, Discourse, and Resistance by Eamonn Carrabine Pdf

This book provides a detailed sociological explanation of why Strangeways, one of the largest prisons in Europe, erupted in violent protest in April 1990. The book locates the complexities of prison life in central problems in social theory and makes a major contribution to sociologically informed criminology.

Author : Bert Useem,Camille Graham Camp,George M. Camp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195357646

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Resolution of Prison Riots by Bert Useem,Camille Graham Camp,George M. Camp Pdf

The book uses eight diverse case studies of prison riots to explore how the outcomes were affected by policies, procedures, management, communications, and strategy immediately before, during, and after the riot. Exploring the results achieved by negotiation, by force, and by simply waiting, the authors illuminate the factors most important in controlling the costs of damage and human suffering that can result from increasingly common prison disturbances.

Author : Malcolm Bell
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1510772561

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The Attica Turkey Shoot by Malcolm Bell Pdf

Witness the hypocrisy of the criminal justice system as told by the prosecutor who sought justice for murdered and tortured prison inmates. The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered. State officials pretended that they could not successfully prosecute the law officers who perpetrated this carnage, and then those same officials scurried for shelter when a prosecutor named Malcolm Bell exposed the cover-up. Bell traveled a rocky road to a justice of sorts as he sought to prosecute without fear or favor—in spite of a deck that the officials had stacked to keep the police from facing the same justice that had filled the Attica prison in the first place. His insider’s account illuminates the all-too-common contrast between the justice of the privileged and the justice of the rest. Newly revised and available for the first time in paperback, the book also includes evidence from recently uncovered tapes that Governor Nelson Rockefeller knew his order for troopers to attack could cost the lives of hundreds of inmates and all those hostages. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the scrutiny it has brought to America's police forces and the criminal justice system, The Attica Turkey Shoot highlights the hypocrisy of a system that decides who goes to prison and who enjoys impunity in a nation where no one is said to be above the law.

Author : James Edward Thomas,Richard Pooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029050783

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The Exploding Prison by James Edward Thomas,Richard Pooley Pdf

Author : Bert Useem,Camille G. Camp,George M. Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312372287

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Resolution of Prison Riots by Bert Useem,Camille G. Camp,George M. Camp Pdf

Author : Heather Ann Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400078240

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Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. • Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA “Gripping ... deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians ... Makes us understand why this one group of prisoners [rebelled], and how many others shared the cost.” —The New York Times On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed thirty-nine men—hostages as well as prisoners—and severely wounded more than one hundred others. In the ensuing hours, weeks, and months, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners. And, ultimately, New York State authorities prosecuted only the prisoners, never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the families of the men who had been killed. Drawing from more than a decade of extensive research, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on every aspect of the uprising and its legacy, giving voice to all those who took part in this forty-five-year fight for justice: prisoners, former hostages, families of the victims, lawyers and judges, and state officials and members of law enforcement. Blood in the Water is the searing and indelible account of one of the most important civil rights stories of the last century. (With black-and-white photos throughout)

Author : Glenn Thomas Langohr,Steven Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1468123823

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Race Riot: a Shocking, Inside Look at Prison Life by Glenn Thomas Langohr,Steven Smith Pdf

"A raw, breathless descent through the inner circle of the California Penal Hell. Fraught with detail that only someone who's been there could know." Phillip Doran, TV Producer and author Another one of Glenn Langohr's stunning memoirs--a brave, unflinching account of life in prison B.J, a White inmate serving time on drug charges, is caught in the cross fire of a gang war in a California maximum security prison. The Black gangsters and Mexican gangsters rage against each other for months until they decide to fight against the White inmates. THIS BOOK IS FREE FOR PRIME MEMBERS IN THE KINDLE STORE. Glenn Langohr's other books include: Roll Call, Upon Release, Lock Up Diaries, Gladiator, Underdog and Prison Riot.

Author : Glenn Langohr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480193933

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Prison Riot, a True Crime Story of Surviving a Gang War in Prison by Glenn Langohr Pdf

Another one of Glenn Langohr's stunning memoirs--a brave, unflinching account of life in prisonB.J, a white inmate serving time on drug charges, gets caught up in a Mexican gang war over gangland tattoos. The prison explodes into chaos as each building erupts in deadly violence. For B.J, the war isn't over when he and over a hundred inmates get housed in solitary confinement, it's just beginning. For getting involved, he's labeled a southern Mexican gangster.Glenn Langohr's other books include: Roll Call, Upon Release, Race Riot, Lock Up Diaries, Gladiator and Underdog. Glenn Langohr spent over 10 years in some of the roughest California prisons on drug charges. During this period he wrote novels to turn it into a blessing. His vision is to help other inmates get instructional writing guides and change their lives.

Author : Richard Andrew Featherstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Prison riots
ISBN : 0773459804

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Narratives from the 1971 Attica Prison Riot by Richard Andrew Featherstone Pdf

This book examines the Attica Prison uprising of 1971. Specifically, it compares and contrasts five published accounts which were authored by individuals personally involved in the tragedy. After providing a brief history of prison rioting in the United States and reviewing the context of the Attica incident itself, a content analysis of the Attica stories is provided. The analysis reveals four dominant themes : military metaphors, racial friction, the underdog, and attributing responsibility. All of the narrators use these themes in their narratives, but each storyteller manipulates these themes in unique and intentional ways. These disparities stem from the varying social and occupational positions in which each narrator resides. This study suggests that prison riots are largely the result of reciprocally corrosive interchanges between those who live and work within a prison facility. For a correctional facility to function appropriately all parties within the prison system must be able to understand, accept, and negotiate various roles. When role expectations and specific interactions between inmates, guards, and facility administrators become unbalanced, a prison disturbance becomes more likely. This book provides a basic framework for creating a new approach to institutional rioting, and suggests ways research in this area might be improved.

Author : Robert Adams,Jo Campling
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Prison riots
ISBN : 0312083823

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Prison Riots in Britain and the USA by Robert Adams,Jo Campling Pdf

"This compelling and unique book amasses a wealth of documentary and research evidence to explode popular myths about the absence of significant prison riots until the 1960s. It demonstrates that prison riots are a central feature of penal history, from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation." "The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the discrediting of the rehabilitative philosophy of imprisonment and a shift in the nature of challenges to the authorities by prisoners, from an almost exclusive focus on macho confrontations by the 'heavy end' of long-sentence prisoners to riots by diverse categories of prisoners, including women, mentally-ill and remand or trial prisoners." "Drawing on incidents where in extreme cases the prisoners have blow-torched, sodomised and raped their guards and each other, and the authorities have used the military, tanks, dynamite, and machine-guns to quell riots, the book illustrates the violent nature of prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons, beyond the patterns of violent confrontations which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604865356

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Lucasville by Staughton Lynd Pdf

Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”