CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Attica Prison Riot, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Penal Labour
1 Feb 2017
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In the usa the prison population is 2. 23 million 10% of adults. In canada 138/100,000: provincial 461/100,000 vs federal 81/100,000. Almost half the prison population in the states is black: 6,607/100,000 for black men, 944/100,000 for white male, 1/14 black males will be locked up, will be under some form of penal control. Social political climate of the (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:882)(cid:495)s: peak in crime rate, model of corrections was rehabilitation, 1970 martinson (cid:498)nothing works(cid:499) documentary came out, said that imprisonment doesn(cid:495)t work as a deterrence, time of reform, indeterminate sentencing. Judge was faced with offender, would look at personal characteristics (age, ses etc) and was up to their discretion but was always inline with rehabilitation. Parole board was using discretion as well: 1972: nixon and the problem of crime. First president who made crime a political action. Becomes intertwined with politics: 1971: attica prison riot- imprisonment of black panthers. Activists that were arrested because they were labeled as committing treason.
