CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gas Chamber, Rickey Jackson, Loose Coupling
5 Dec 2017
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Discusses long term solitary confinement -> prisons within prisons. Administrators decide that prisons not capable of containing the worst of the worst -> had to develop ways to make punishment harsher. Want to contain people already in prison. Damaged people and made them less able to re-assimilate. Grievance system = prisoner writes what they disagree with to be looked over -> meant to have some kind of action from courts. More research today focused on what happens in prisons. *watch link on own -> online with powerpoint. Doing time vs. letting time do you. Mistake because did not help ensure public safety. Appeal to justice: prisoner grievances rights, and carceral logic. Podcast production coming out of san quentin. For the first time, more than 1 in 100 adults now confined in american jail or prison. Huge jump in number of prisoners after the 1970s. The us leads the world in incarceration. The south led the way in mass incarceration.
