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When the prisoners ran Walpole : a true story in the movement for prison abolition / Jamie Bissonette ; with Ralph Hamm, Robert Dellelo, and Edward Rodman.

Bissonette, Jamie.
2008
HV9306.W342 M372 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
When the prisoners ran Walpole : a true story in the movement for prison abolition / Jamie Bissonette ; with Ralph Hamm, Robert Dellelo, and Edward Rodman.
Author
Bissonette, Jamie.
ISBN
9780896087705 (pbk.)
0896087700 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
x, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
HV9306.W342 M372 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
365/.97447
Summary
"In 1971, Attica's prisonyard massacre shocked the public, prisoners, and political leaders across the United States. Massachusetts residents pledged to prevent such slaughter from ever happening there, and the governor agreed. Thus started a move for reform that led eventually to the prisoners at Walpole's Massachusetts Correctional Institute winning control of its day-to-day operations." From the bookjacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Preamble: constructing punishment in Massachusetts
Confronting the moral dilemma of Massachusetts prisons: Francis Sargent and his administration
The new commissioner: from corrections to abolition
The beginning: constructing corrections in Massachusetts
Resistance, rebellion, and declaration: creating a culture of resistance
Dynamic and determined: the National Prisoners Reform Association
Walpole chapter
The struggle for voice and sovereignty: the NPRA negotiates power
Stealing time: the NPRA takes over
Soul contraband: observers witness terror and change
Readjustment and resistance: the state police takeback
The struggle for existence: death knell for reform?
Those who dared: the promise of abolition.

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