Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Getting Medical Attention in Prison: A Comparison of Two Prison Settings
Historically, riots and inmate rebellion have been very much a part of u.s. Prison life. Inmates have consistently demanded prison reform because the correctional system has always seemed to need it (silberman, In the wake of the riots ten years ago, inmates once again demanded prison reform. This time, however, the prisoners' rights movement was born, and demands for reform were politicized.
Inmates were brought into a loose coalition with civil libertarians from traditionally supportive church-led groups like the Quakers and establishment organization like the American Bar Association. The coalition held promise. At long last inmates appeared to have captured the necessary public attention which had previously eluded them. For, as Goldfarb and Singer (1973) describe the problem of earlier reform efforts.
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