Essay on Sante Fe Prison Riot

Prisoners obtained contraband cellphones and recorded the first riot. They subsequently uploaded the video to social media, allowing the world to see the terrible conditions that have become typical in Alabama’s state prisons. The prison had triples bunks in cells, which is extremely dangerous. Governor Bentley immediately responded to the situation with the idea to create four super max prisons to hold all of Alabama’s state prisoners. I do not think that shoving all of our prisoners into a fewer number of bigger facilities is going to fix the problem. If anything, the already small number of officers assigned to prisons will become even more overwhelmed if something like the Holman riots were to happen

Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com, a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes. Some riots are characterized by organization and demands, others by weak and confused formation of leadership, or conflict and violence among inmates themselves. In some riots, prisoners inflict suffering on hostages, inmates treat hostages well,

Accordingly, the inmates mostly just wanted better living conditions, and to be treated more like people and less like criminals. The inmates wanted religious freedom. They wanted to have basic needs met such as the toilet paper issue as well as the showering, and they

Prisoners at MSP rioted in September of 1954. The Missouri Highway Patrol and local law enforcement entered the prison to quell the riot, before all the buildings were burnt to the ground.

A. Each prisoner received a copy of the Rules and Regulations for the Government… Correctional Institutions as well as a copy of the warden’s special rules that explained the daily routine of work and counts. The inmates were awakened at 6:30am to begin their day. They were required to clean up themselves and their cell and required to shave three times a week.

At the time, prison cells were still operated by a turnkey system, which required each cell be opened individually by a guard with a key (The Ohio Penitentiary). There wasn’t any kind of central unlocking device. Thus, as flames, carbon monoxide, and toxic fumes spread through the cell block, inmates had nowhere to run, and many died of oxygen deprivation and smoke inhalation (The Ohio Penitentiary). There is much confusion surrounding what actually went on during the fire. While there are stories of guards purposely leaving inmates locked in their cells, there are also stories of heroism displayed by both the inmates and guards alike. Stories of both sides working together to free as many from the blaze as possible and stories of inmates going back in time and time again to rescue victims only to succumb to the blaze themselves as well. It is believed however, that Warden Preston E. Thomas refused to release prisoners until the Ohio National Guard responded in fear of a riot. By the time the Guard had arrived thirty minutes later, many had already perished (State Fire Marshal

A gruesome example of the ill-effects incarceration they have on a nonviolent person. A young man was once arrested for participating in a peaceful march that turned ugly when some young thugs started hurling objects at police. In the commotion he was arrested and was jailed in lieu of paying a fine in protest for his moral beliefs. He spent a forty-eight hour period incarcerated, in this time he was savagely raped by numerous violent prisoners. This savage and inhumane attack occurred over twenty years ago, and since then he has had years of therapy, and yet he has never recovered emotionally (Lozoff). His entire life still centers on the decision of one prison superintendent to place him in a violent cellblock in order to scare him and teach him a lesson. He cannot function properly in society; he is mentally scared and still to this day suffers ill effects crippling him of a normal life. If this is a normal outcome of incarcerating nonviolent offenders then this is not the answer.

In the case of the California’s Corcoran State Prison the prisoners were being mistreated. The situation that brought this case to the forefront was Dryburgh (2009) found that “Preston Tate was shot and fatally wounded by a corrections officer after Tate and his cellmate fought against two rival Hispanic gang member. Tate death was at the hands of a prison guard prompted two whistle – blowers to approach the FBI with tales of abuse and brutality toward inmates by correction officers”. Moreover, this was not the first time that an inmate had been shot by a correctional officer.

In 1965 riots in L.A. occurred after a routine stop by the police involving drunk driving. This stop occurred very close the driver’s residence where massive crowd began to build. When it was all said and done

In spite of the fact that the situation is intricate, and some conflicting discoveries have risen, for the most part the literature supports the idea that the more coercive the jail environment the more prominent the potential for savagery becomes. This is particularly so where jail administration and treatment of detainees are seen by detainees as unreasonable or illegitimate, as this reinforces detainee solidarity contrary to the authorities. A jail approach that keenly consolidates situational and social counteractive action techniques upheld by fitting administration strategies and exploration based staff enlistment and preparing practices, is likely the most encouraging model for lessening interpersonal savagery in correctional facilities.

Held by prisoners because of the unfairness that was happening with them at that period of time, it cause a lot of problems such as a lot of people being injured, including guards. I personally believe that the riot was wrong and right. I believe that the riot was wrong because it caused a lot of problems, like so many people got injured and most importantly over 40 got killed, and that is a big problem because now the guards and the government have a reason on why they treated people so harshly they can say that the inmates are very violent and that's why we have to be harsh , which would only make things worse. What the inmates

When we do research on daily prison life, we come across two typical but less than ideal situations: either social imaginaries cloud our judgment or information provided by the prisons themselves hide certain weak or bad aspects that they do not want to make public. We can also find information on TV, but most of the time it either exaggerates or minimizes the facts. In order to obtain more reliable information, we have to have access to people who are working or have worked in this institution, and such will be the sources of this essay. We will be describing and giving examples of prison violence according to three types of violence: sexual, physical and psychological violence.

Evidence shows that overcrowded prison conditions increase crime in these confines, such as inmates attacking guards. Instances like this happen in these unprincipled institutions daily across the United States, making overcrowded prisons dangerous to

During the riot, the first fire started at a shoe store on 12th. Officers were starting to line up with shields standing next to each other to block the rioting from spreading any further. There were authorities having a meeting to try and stop the riot. They were trying to make peace patrols but the police officers were blocking them from entering the area of the riot. The police officers were still trying to take control of the situation but their officers were being injured and the rioters started to outnumber them by a lot. As the police officers were giving up the firefighters were putting out fires. There were new fires starting as fast as they were being put out.

After an uneventful first day, on the second day the prisoners in Cell 1 began to revolt and become quite abusive towards the guards. The guards then took it upon themselves to handle the situation themselves without any supervision even though they were all briefed and told they were not permitted to use any physical violence against the prisoners. The guards realised that handling the prisoners with only three guards per the shift was hard and therefore introduced their own “privilege cell” which meant that any prisoners not involved in the riot got special rewards, for example, nicer meals. However, the prisoners who were awarded with the privileged cell chose not to eat the food provided, possibly because they felt as if they were art of