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...California prison system into which George Jackson entered is a criminologist's dream and a convict's nightmare. In their 1951 book, New Horizons in Criminology, Harry Elmer Barnes and Hegley K. Teeters said: "The state of California stands in the forefront of penal experimentation, with its progressive philosophy epitomized in the Youth and Adult Authorities." At the time, the statement may well have been accurate, for Earl Warren was then governor of the state and had effected a number of changes designed to bring California's prison system into the 20th century. However, the promise seeded by the reforms...
...initial support of the reform-minded for California's action was quickly eclipsed by the almost universal approval of the new Authority's performance and promise. With great fanfare, the Authority initiated a house cleaning of the more vicious reform schools, accumulated data on youthful offenders, created two new penal programs, and opened two correctional facilities--a girls' school at Los Guilucos and one for boys at Paso Robles...
...penal programs the Authority began that attracted the greatest amount of attention. The first was the establishment of a diagnostic center at which new charges would be evaluated so that each inmate could receive tailor-made correctional treatment based on a scientific analysis of his character and background. The second new program developed by the Youth Authority was the creation of forestry camps to which the more promising charges would be sent for work outdoors. Based upon the philosophy of the CCC, the forestry camps are intended to offer their workers labor that is "both productive and therapeutic" by allowing...
Attica is a prison town, which (with the exception of some cities and large communities like Trenton that are the sites of state or federal penal institutions) is a place analogous to the company town. The majority of people in the community are directly connected in some form to the operation of the prison. Fathers, sons, and grandsons work as prison guards. Wives and daughters hold jobs as secretaries or other noncombative positions on the staff. Often in facilities large enough to provide employees housing inside the walls or in cases in which the town is too small to have...
...More Passion. The commission will have plenty of competition from other investigators who are flocking to Attica. In addition to Senator Dunne's crusade, a committee will be established by the state legislature to consider changes in the penal system. Former U.S. Senator Charles Goodell has set up a committee of scholars to conduct a study of prison reform. State Deputy Attorney General Robert Fischer is briskly probing the rebellion with the aim of bringing possible indictments against some of the inmates...