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| States work to curb jail violence |
| By USA Today |
| Published: 08/22/2008 |
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UNITED STATES - Serving time in prison isn't supposed to be easy. Surviving prison should be. That wasn't the case during much of the 1970s and '80s, during which time a prison riot in Attica, N.Y., left 43 dead and a riot in Santa Fe left 33 dead. As recently as 1980, the murder rate in prison was nearly five times as great as in the general population. "It was certainly a rougher time, where your emphasis was more on reprisal, retribution, punishment," said Shelby County (Tenn.) Sheriff Mark Luttrell, a former warden at three federal prisons and a member of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. "We were a rudderless ship there for years and years without oversight." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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