SOC229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kingston Penitentiary, Canadian Confederation, The Inmates
16 Oct 2015
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Module 1 - the april 1971 kingston penitentiary riot. The breakdown: about the prison riot, patterns in prison riots, treatment of hostages in prison riots and murder in prison riots, theories of prison riots. Kingston story = 2 inmate undesirables were murdered by a group of other inmates (brain ensor and bertrand henry robert), there was a trial of 13 inmates charged with two counts of murder. Inmates gave police statements, police asked questions about all kinds of incidents (not just the murders: this is a form of available data - problems include being bias, it is often fragmentary and incomplete. Prison riots seem to be very predictable in the sense that you can predict what is likely to happen within that riot: riots have distinction qualities but for the most part they"re very general. If a person is sent to a federal penitentiary (ex. Inmates in maximum security = most dangerous, violent.
