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PublisherWashington STATE University Press
ISBN-100874223393
ISBN-139780874223392
eBay Product ID (ePID)219201347
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Book TitleUnusual Punishment : inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970 1985
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, Public Policy / Social Policy, Violence in Society, Penology, Criminology
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorChristopher Murray
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Table Of ContentPreface Part 1: Super Custody Before 1970 1. The Prison 2. The Men 3. The Warden 4. The Reformers Part 2: Changes 1970-1973 5. The Education of Bobby Rhay 6. Superagency 7. The Four Reforms 8. The Christmas Strike 9. New Beginnings 10. Rhay Takes Charge 11. Making History 12. Unintended Consequences 13. Red Flags 14. Under the Radar Part 3: Descent 1973-1977 15. California Connection 16. Capitulation 17. Harvey 18. Lines in the Sand 19. Parallel Tracks 20. The Third Floor 21. The Goon Squad 22. Power Shift 23. Abdication 24. B. J. Rhay's Final Chapter Part 4: Nadir 1977-1978 25. Vinzant 26. Prison Management 27. Rules to Live By 28. The Wastebasket Caper 29. Spring Cleaning 30. The MAS Banquet 31. "A Little Guard" 32. Post Mortem Part 5: War 1978-1981 33. Dysfunction 34. The Party's Over 35. The Midnight Express 36. Power Vacuum 37. Cross 38. Shakedown 39. Saturday Night Live 40. Breakdown 41. A Victory of Sorts 42. Dog Days of Summer 43. Hoptowit 44. Political Fallout Part 6: Transformation 1981-1985 45. A Department is Born 46. First Steps 47. Kautzky 48. Building Blocks 49. IMU 50. Three Years Later Afterword Appendices A. Persons mentioned B. Persons interviewed and interview dates Notes Index The Cover Photograph--About the Photographer
SynopsisUnusual Punishment details the explosive story of failed reform at one Washington State penitentiary as well as the complex, challenging, and painful path back from chaos., Unusual Punishment details the personalities and astonishing events surrounding the collapse of a decades old prison culture and describes how leaders painfully constructed a modern control system. The Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla was once a place where the warden exercised absolute authority. One word, and a convict could be held for weeks, naked, in an empty dark cell, or sent to the terrifying mental health ward where coercion included torture. Any employee could be fired at will. Guards and prisoners called it "super custody." Change began in the early 1970s with well-meaning but naive reform. Inmates abused new freedoms. Chaos descended. Convicts had the only keys to certain prison areas. Bikers roared prison-made choppers around the Big Yard. Marijuana was everywhere, and hundreds shot heroin. Prisoners took lives with shanks and even bombs. Frustrated and afraid, correctional officers quit or looked the other way. A new superintendent curtailed the most dysfunctional inmate privileges, and in a dramatic midnight move, sent incarcerated leaders to distant prisons. In the fragile stability that followed, a guard was murdered, a long lockdown began, a cell block rioted, and more than two hundred men spent a long, hot summer outside in the Big Yard. Numerous officers rebelled, demanding a brutal crackdown and return to super custody. When forty-two refused to take their posts, the superintendent fired them all. The courts intervened, politics changed, and in 1981, a charismatic correctional leader--charming in public and tyrannical in private--took command of a newly created department of corrections. With skill and determination, he imposed his will and transformed Washington corrections. Order returned to the penitentiary.
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