Abstract: This is a case study of a fairly new correctional institution that greatly increased its emphasis upon security during its first five years of operation. According to the employees, who perceived the increase in security as a shift in the institution's role, the new prison began as a minimum-security institution for model prisoners and later, because it received prisoners transferred to relieve crowding in an older institution, was forced to tighten security. Actually, however, the new institu tion was built to ease the overcrowding in the old prison. Initially it was most expedient to reduce the congestion by sending the new facility the most cooperative prisoners. The changes that occurred in this new institution cannot be attrib uted to pressures from the community, the institutional staff, or the inmates. The only adequate way to account for them is to consider the Department of Correction's influence on the institution.
Publication Year: 1972
Publication Date: 1972-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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