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Prison Riots As We Know It If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. .... IN( _" 4 '7 "t' .. ; $ : , Prison Violence l ~t'-!: I "'\oi, SPRING-SUMMER '0\0 1983 ------~-----------.-----------------------." ~ , . ......, JtP-=-- .. --",- --------~----~..~--P~------~--------~---------- The PRISON Contents Page Editorial • • • • • • " " " " " " " " " " " " ••';'" " " " " " ~ " 'of " • ,. " " • • \' ~ • ...", " " " " " " " " " "" I .r- In ca' ~. 5"~; Journal v ; The Anatomy of p/-nother {rrison Riot ... ;.:: ~:_ . : .............. 3 ! by Israel L. Barak-Glanh VOLUME Lxm SPRING-SUMMER NUMBER 1 L..,. ISSUED SEMI-ANNUALLY BY THE PENNSYLVANIA rAn Essay on Pr~~n Violence ...... ? / ~ .:i.~!, ............... 24 I: by Lee H. Bowker PRISON SOCIETY I l~ Editor: Rendell A. Davis ................................. Assistant Editor: Janet A. Leban Editorial Advisory Board Prison Riot~: A Corrections' ~ightma# Since 1774 . ~~:i.~.b.~ .. 32 by Steve Dillingham and Reid H. Montgomery, Jr. Alexine L. Atherton ,James J. McKenna, Jr. Edmund B. Spaeth b. Melvin S. Heller Peter Scharf Marvin E. Wolfgang Norman Johnston Jack Schaller \ 'r+The Quicksand Prison .......... .ti",;: G, .r;. ! ................. 47 Board of Directors ~ by Paul "V. Kcve President ... .. ... ....... Alexine L. Atherton, Ph.D. Vice President ....... .... ....... ... ...... ..................... ... David W. Lauder Vice President ........................................................... James J. McKenna, Jr., Ph.D. f-Crime Site Splection for Assaults in Four FI~~ida Prisons ........ 59 Vice President Emeritus ............. .......... ..... .... ..... .................. Mrs. P. Blair Lee Treasurer ............ .......................... .............. .... .......... ..... ........................ Albert Froy :,. by Randy Atlas q ! &{, ~~ Assistant Treasurer......... ........... .. ......................... .......................... Paul T. Donovan Treasurer Emeritus ......................... ................... .......................... Sewell W. Hodge \ Issues in P~son Sexual Violence .... ';:1/' '.: ")"3'................ 73 Solicitor . ......... ..... ..... .. ...... ............. ..... .................. .......... ...... .......... Germaine Ingram, Esq. Gary E. Bittner Henry Nicholas 1- by Daniel Lockwood / t.' f.:: ,'P' Lem Burnham The Rev. John A. Parkinson Euniece M. Connor The Rev. Robert E. Payson Sexual Victim in a, Coeducational C Richard H. Fulmer Richard W. Rogers, Esq. r;:he '6 be tf Patricia Gibbs Elizabeth H. Rossiter ::.. : Juverule CorrectIonal IjlsntUtlOn ........... '.' '11 .. ............ 80 Clinton S.R. Gibson. Jr., Esq. Hilda Silverman i. by Clemens Bartollas and Christopher M. Sleverdes Julian L. Greifer, Ph.D Kenneth Smith The Rev. Barbara C. Harris Rith Smolko ~lInate Ethnicitv.and the Suicide Connection: .... ~. ~ Melvin S. Heller, M.D. The Rev. John H. Sorenson l 11' . I, 0 /. ~ J 91 1•• Marilyn Young Hill Chuck Stone ,' A Note on A.o-greb-ateb~ P Trends ...............'7. (t' • • '••••••••••• Cleona Nicholas Jackso.n John Sweeny '''''. by Richard H. 'Anson Ella P. Joyner Marie J. Tervalon Marvin Louis Christine Torres-Matrullo, Ph.D. Rose Law Miller Marvin E. Wolfgang r -The Effec~s of Qe~er~nina~e Sentencing on ~;:. bl;; Staff Inmate Mlscondupt 1Il Pnson ..............t; /. t: . ........... 100 Rendell A. DaVis .......... ....... ...... ......... Executive Director Peggy A. McGarry ..... Assistant Executive Director & Director. Women's Program i:- by Martin L. Forst and James M. Brady John D. Case .................................................................................................... Field Director Janet A. Leban ...................................................................... Public Relations Director Norman Pearson . ........... ......... ..... ..... .......... Field Representative. Direct Services r~~~ty Bars: \1~olel~ce and t?e (;.'1/ ~; f /J Kay E. Tucker, Esq .................................... Field Representative, Women's Program , CnsIs of Meanmg Ih the Pnson ......../ ... ( ....f. .... ........ 114 Carol Harris Gray ..................................... Field Representative, Women's Program by Peter Scharf . Jeffrey M. Hyman, Ph.D. ........... Staff Sociologist Patricia Finio .................................. Prison Arts & Humanities Program Coordinator ! Jane H. Johnson ...... Community Services Project Acting Adminstrative Assistant The Society of Lifers 125 Bernice O'Hara ...... ......... ............... Community Service Orders Project Counselor by John 'P. Conrad Patrick McKinley, Esq. .............. ...... Community Service Orders Proj.ect Counselor Bella J. Muir ........................................................................................ Executive Secretary Alice R. Young ................................................. ...... ............. ..... ..... ........ ........ ..... Bookkeeper I Random Thoughts on the Treatment Renee Evans " ...... .... ..... ................... ............. .................. ........................ ................. Secretary of the "Dangerous Offender" ............................... 134 Flo Brizer .......................... ................... ......... ...... ......... ....... ...... ........ ....... ....... ........ Secretary by Rendell A. Davis I, Room 302 Social Service Building 311 S. Juniper Street. Philadelphia, PA 19107-215-732-5990 Articles or comments which appear in The Prison Journal may be reprinted in full or in part, with permission in writing from the Editor. Annual Subscription $5.00 ISSN 0032-8855 ~ Single Issues $3.00 ~ember of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvaltiit ....iNt...... .-....-~ ....__..,...,~...._~----'- .... ----------------------------------------~--------------------~------~----------------------~~----~-----________~ __~am ____..... ~•• ~-- ..-- ......................WL__ · , Ii I Editorial This issue of The Prison Journal on Prison Violence has been planned over a period of years. It has turned out to be one of the longest issues ever in terms of the number of pages, and we expect it may rank as one of the most provocative issues we have published. The contents range from analyses or prisons and various forms and causes of violence to the philosophies in correctional thought, and finally to a look into the future of corrections in an attempt to assess their social value to the community, the nation, and to the world. We have been fortunate in Il assembling among the writers some of the finest minds in corrections today. One of the themes that emerge from the essays in this issue revolves around the axiom which is becoming more and more apparent to psychologists and social observers: violence begets violence. The whip is not the ans''''c.:!r to incorrigibility; rejection is not the answer to delinquency; abused children become child abusers. And yet in the course of administering a prison, it is not always apparent that the axiom is accepted; it is not clear that the lesson has been learned. We continue to act as if our measures of control and oppression are a defense rather than a cause of the violence we fear and sometimes experience in our institutions. There are many forms of violence. We recall Gandhi's statement that "poverty is the worst form of violence." I remember hearing Robert Kennedy, speaking at a memorial on the day after Martin Luther King's assassination, say that social ills and racism constituted the most raw kind of violence. And in this issue, Paul Keve speaks of the "violence fostered by the prison itself in those inmates who have not been particularly violence-prone on the outside." Thus, he c;ays, "we sustain u.s~ ~ o1Jutt~ NatfoMIInatitute of Jostke the correctional quicksand ... and the prison's criminogenic character. " 11Ms document has bHn ttlprOdu(,'ecI exactly as received from th~ P*'&On or organization originating it. Points of view Of opinions stated If this issue of The Prison Journal can somehow persuade the In this document are those Gf lh& authors and do net necessarily represent the offreiaJ position or policies of the National Institute of correctional world that our developing understanding of violence and Justice. its causes has deep implications for how we should run our prisons, then we wiH have done what we set out to do. Permisslon to reproduce this copyrjght~ material has been granted by I The Prison Jour.n~a~lL_ ____ __ --------------------------._------_.. ----- I R.A.D. to the National CrifTHr.a! Justice Reference Servic,'e (NCJRS). j ~urther r~on oulSldlt eX the NCJRS system requirti permls- 8KIfl Of the COpyright C'MlGr. " 1 MIt s 4 ''1 JOt""-= • --=w; ~ Ii \. r! The Anatomy of Another Prison Riot Israel L. Barak-Glantz* One sunny Spring morning in 1981, there was trouble at the 5,500- inmate institution of the State Prison of Southern Michigan (SPSM). Hundreds of officials and employees ru~hed to the prison that Friday before Memorial Day. They were too late. By late in the morning of May 22, 1981, mattresses and desks were burning, and hundreds of prisoners were in the central yard. Guards against supervisors, then prisoners against guards, had erupted within the concrete recesses where some of If Michigan's dangerous offenders are shut away. Inmate uprising, apparently unplanned and leaderless, destruction, and violence swept through the State's three largest and toughest prisons dUling the subsequent five days. Ne\,,'s of the disturbance at SPSM reached prisoners at the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia the afternoon of May 22, 1981, through the media, from personal
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