The Abandoned Ones

by Hamm, Mark S.

• ISBN13: 9781555532307
• ISBN10: 1555532306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-05-18
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

The Cubans who embarked en masse for the U.S. after 1980 were initially welcomed. However, in the wake of media-fueled rumors that Castro was using the exodus to empty prisons, a select group was detained by the INS on the basis of its "hardened" appearance. Mark S. Hamm gives an in-depth, hard-hitting analysis of the 1987 Oakdale and Atlanta prison riots, during which several thousand Cubans rebelled after seven years of detention by the INS without due process.

Author Biography

Mark S. Hamm is Professor of Criminology at Indiana State University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreground
The Riots	p. 3
The Siege	p. 15
The Lessons	p. 30
Background
The Freedom Flotilla	p. 45
The Resettlement	p. 53
The Moral Crusade	p. 70
The Pains of Imprisonment: Atlanta, 1984-1987	p. 84
The Adaptation and Equilibrium	p. 102
The Human Rights Offensive	p. 120
Action Theory for Administrative Reform
The Oakdale and Atlanta Riots Revisited	p. 153
Notes	p. 183
References	p. 207
Chronology of Events	p. 219
Index	p. 229
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