Resolution of Prison Riots Strategies and Policies

by Useem, Bert; Camp, Camille Graham; Camp, George M.

• ISBN13: 9780195093247
• ISBN10: 0195093240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 Biography

Bert Useem is Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Protracted Riots
United States Penitentiary, Atlanta	p. 11
Federal Correctional Institution, Talladega, Alabama	p. 39
Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill	p. 56
Mack Alford Correctional Center, Oklahoma	p. 84
Contracted Riots
Coxsackie Correctional Facility, New York	p. 107
Kirkland Correctional Institution, South Carolina	p. 121
Arizona State Prison Complex, Cimarron Unit	p. 131
Idaho State Correctional Institution	p. 137
Conclusions
Before the Riot	p. 149
During the Riot	p. 162
After the Riot	p. 185
Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 213
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