Attica. The details of the riot at Attica Prison in 1971 appear in Tom Wicker, A Time to Die (New York: Ballantine, 1975).
The Arkansas Prison Scandal. A full examination of the prison conditions that led to the federal court decision in Holt v. Sarver can be found in Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, Accomplices to Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal (New York: Grove Press, 1969). The 1980 film, Brubaker, with Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, and Yaphet Kotto is also highly recommended.
Prisoners' Rights. John A. Fliter, Prisoners' Rights: The Supreme Court and Evolving Standards of Decency (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).An excellent review article on the topic is Fred Cohen, "The Law of Prisoners' Rights," Criminal Law Review 24 (July-August 1988): 321-349. In addition, there are a number of good articles in Peter M. Carlson and Judith Simon Garrett, eds., Prison and Jail Administration: Practice and Theory (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, 1999).
