Citizens and Criminals: Mass Incarceration, "Prison Neighbors," and Fear-Based Organizing in 1980s Rural Pennsylvania
Throughout the 1980s, the Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC), a grassroots group of “prison neighbors,” organized for tighter security at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCID), a medium security prison in northeast Pennsylvania. Motivated primarily by their fear of prisoner escapes, th...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/786 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1889&context=theses |