CJ 3302 Lecture 2: notes 01/31

• School: Temple University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3302
• Professor: Sean Cassidy

Document Summary

1900s - 1950s: the big house prison. Some reforms in prisons (more inmate movement) but generally large custodial institutions. Abolishment to the lease labor system in the south. Gradual abolishment of some of the brutal forms of corporal punishment - guards/ Co"s still had the upper hand to use physical means to control inmates but less brutality. Mid 1960s to late 1970s was the peak of this era. Focus on classifying inmates and providing opportunity for change. Rhetoric vs. real change in focus - was it real change or was it just talk of change and the beginning of criticism to that particular system. The south still had few real changes and brutality was the general rule. Tucker telephone (arkansas) and other tortures - device involving electric probes all over the body to shock inmates. Co"s expected to help inmates program and court decisions changed prisons drastically. African american inmates grew in numbers and became politically aware.