Authors: Bert Useem, Peter Kimball
ISBN-13: 9780195072716, ISBN-10: 0195072715
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
University of Louisville
College of Health Care Executives
This book examines case studies of recent prison riots in five states, including the 1971 radical uprising in Attica, New York, and the infamous 1981 bloodbath at the New Mexico Penitentiary. The most extensive and detailed work yet written on US prison riots, the authors explain the occurrence and variations of riots as a reflection of the administrative breakdown of the prison system within a changing ideological context. A theoretical appendix helps make this work an ideal introduction to sociological theories of collective action.
1. | Introduction | 3 |
Part I. | Prisons and Prison Riots in the 1970s | |
2. | The Historical Context: 1950-1975 | 9 |
3. | D Yard Nation--Attica (1971) | 19 |
4. | A Gang in Rebellion--Joliet (1975) | 59 |
Part II. | Prisons and Prison Riots in the 1980s | |
5. | The Historical Context: 1976-1986 | 81 |
6. | Deadly Conflict--Penitentiary of New Mexico (1980) | 85 |
7. | Guards and Inmates in Conflict--Michigan Prisons (1981) | 114 |
8. | Routine Riot--West Virginia Penitentiary (1986) | 161 |
Part III. | Conclusions | |
9. | The Nature and Course of Prison Riots | 201 |
10. | Causes and Effects of Prison Riots | 218 |
Appendix A. | The Context of Breakdown/Deprivation Theory of Protest | 232 |
Appendix B. | Immediate Demands (Attica) | 236 |
Appendix C. | Practical Proposals (Attica) | 238 |
Appendix D. | Proposals Collected Friday Night (Attica) | 239 |
Appendix E. | The James Letter (Attica) | 241 |
Appendix F. | The 28 Points (Attica) | 242 |
Appendix G. | Sunday Afternoon Ultimatum (Attica) | 245 |
Appendix H. | Monday Morning Ultimatum (Attica) | 246 |
Appendix I. | Public Appeal by Observers (Attica) | 247 |
Appendix J. | Inmate Grievances [Abridged] (West Virginia Penitentiary) | 248 |
Notes | 250 | |
Index | 273 |