Author: New York (State). Commission on Prison Administration and ConstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A Preliminary Report on an Educational Project at Elmira Reformatory
Author: New York (State). Commission on Prison Administration and ConstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Coxsackie
Author: Joseph F. SpillanePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421413221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
How progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders. Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve “adolescents adrift,” Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison’s mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face—drugs, gangs, and racial conflict. Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which “ungovernable” young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution. Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others. In today’s era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America’s prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). LegislaturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
An Evaluation of the Administration of the Educational Program at San Quentin Prison
Author: Thomas Alfred BlakelyPublisher:
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Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Correction
Author: Supplementary Report
Author: Rhode Island. State Commission on Public Welfare InstitutionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Author: Votes and Proceedings
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Includes special sessions.
The Administration of Personnel in Correctional Institutions in New York State
Author: Donald Ross PugmirePublisher:
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Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description