Five days later, Dachau was exempted from Judicial Authority, and then the Punishments an Administrations Regulations act was passed, which meant that it was removed from judicial oversight and the SS guards would have authority over camp prisoners. The following October, a punishment and admissions regulations was passed by Theodor Eickle which allowed SS guards to prescribe punishments, including beatings and execution. The endless nightmare that the prisoners had to endure did not change until August 5, 1938. Dachau forced its prisoners to work at seven days a week to demolish parts of the camp to make room for the expansions. The year after, the camp was temporarily transformed into an Armed Forces Training Camp.
Visits hardly ever happen, and visitors only see inmates through a Plexiglas wall. Inmates in disciplinary segregation are additionally hand-cuffed, shackled, and chained to a cement stump throughout the entire visit. Tamms inmates are not allowed to make any phone calls unless there is a death in the family, and even then may have to go on a hunger strike to get it. Even at ADX Florence, the federal supermax prison where convicted al-Qaeda terrorists are imprisoned, inmates are allowed to make one phone call each month. Criteria for placement at Tamms are currently so vague that every prisoner in the Illinois Department of Corrections is eligible.
At this time Rome was the market city of the world, much like a present day New York City. The city used over 4,000 tons of grain a year. Also the Romans were the first to make cement that’s why so of their buildings still stand today. Cities were built exactly the same in Rome. In fact there were over a 1,000 cities built exactly like each other, they never believed in changing the blueprint.
Marc Peterson Mark Peterson has recently been incarcerated with the Department of Correction and is serving a 4-5 year sentence at MCI-Shirley for assault and battery. Inmate Peterson is a clean cut, well-spoken, 20 year old white male, who has never served time in a prison or county jail. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old, which was around the time he started having run-ins with the law. He admitted that he never graduated from high school, and he has had a serious drinking problem in previous two years. Although Inmate Peterson has a serious prison sentence, it doesn’t necessarily mean he has to be a criminal for the rest of his life.
He still has occasion meetings with the participants from the experiment. This experiment that Zimbardo created was a little unusual. It is completely understandable to want to understand more about the minds of prisoners and guards and how they are affected inside the prison walls alone, but Zimbardo seems as though his description of the prisons experimental methods Confer 2 were understated. The rules of the prison were arranged by the psychologists, which caused the guards to behave the way they did. Was this the whole point of telling the guards how to control the prison?
The federal correctional system, although predominantly a 20th century creation, has its roots, in other words, in the 18th and 19th centuries. The so-called Three Prison Act, which was passed in 1891, began the process of creating the federal prison system by identifying three sites around the country for first penitentiaries. Development, however, was slow, and 6 years passed before ground breaking began on the first of the penitentiaries, U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth. It took inmates 25 years to build Leavenworth Penitentiary. They lived in an old military fort, an appropriated by the federal government, while they were engaged in the construction of a modern building, designed to hold 1,200 men.
Attica Prison Riot Assignment After reading about the riot at Attica Prison I knew that it was a terrible riot where many inmates and guards were injured and over 40 were killed. I pictured the riot as one from a movie or television show where there was an uprising, a short stand still, then the police force ending it in a massacre. What the movie showed me was that this was not a movie or TV show and all the people involved, both inmate and guard, were a part of a civil war. These casualties I read about in the book weren’t just numbers but real people that if treated better could have avoided the riot all together. The Attica Prison is an old maximum security prison located in New York and housed mainly African American (54%) and Hispanic (9%) inmates that grew up in the inner cities and poorer parts of the state.
The Massacres were fueled by fear of the invasion from Prussia, food shortages and radical propaganda. About 150 people broke into jails, attacked and killed prisoners because they feared the prisoners would aid in Prussia’s invasion
2) The middle class White family, about 72%, owns their homes, while only about 46% of the middle class Black family owns their homes. 3) Unemployment is for Black people is double then it is for White people. 4) Some companies hire mostly White people. An example is Microsoft. In the 2000, there were 20,000 White people working for Microsoft, and 544 Black people working for Microsoft.
To this day it is a US National Historic Landmark. Eastern State Penitentiary was designed to hold 250 prisoners in total solitary confinement. An architect named John Haviland was hired to build the prison. His design was a “hub and spoke”, almost like a bicycle wheel. This type of design allowed for a “constant surveillance of the prison from a central rotunda.” (Prairi 2) When the prison first opened “the Quakers of Philadelphia established a new method of incarceration which dealt with “penitence” for the lawbreaker.” (Prairi 1) This new method consisted of solitary confinement.