CRJU203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deinstitutionalisation, Pepper Spray, Last Meal
11 Apr 2016
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Harsh prison condiions create an environment that prisoners seek out their own protecion, services, and support. Breakdown of either formal or informal control: formal: facility security. Prison violence coninuaion: not that the guards are operaing in immoral behavior rather amoral behavior, lessons from aica prison. Sheds light on causes of prison riots. The impact of broader social condiions of the ime. The impact of social climate inside the prison: racism. The response to aica, which is clearly a scandalous act. Harsh prison condiions, food, and retched place. Isolaion: the disinguishing feature of mass imprisonment, oten arbitrary decisions made by prison staf, deprived of all human contact and sensory simuli. Hallucinaions, loss of control, irritability, aggression, rage, paranoia: severe mental illness: Prisoners are most at risk of being in isolaion: mentally ill prisoners are put in isolaion. Deinsituionalizaion: a belief that it"s another bad, welfare program, mentally ill is sigmaized to the oicers, themselves, and prison itself.
