"Peg and Walter McGraw tell the full story of a national disgrace - of waste, corruption, mismanagement, brutality, sexual perversion, mob violence, and crime within our prison walls. While they found the over-all prison picture appalling and discouraging, they also found a few courageous penologists fighting, and winning, desperate battles for prison reform and intelligent administration. Here, in the words of both the convicts and the men who run...

"This book is the story of America's prisons. It examines the recent wave of riots, and also the warden's problems, and responsibilities of higher government officials...Why do we imprison people at all and is the present system even effective?"--Foreword.

Using close-up studies of eight prison riots, Resolution of Prison Riots gives readers an inside view of what these events are like. The riots examined include those that grabbed national attention - one in which over 100 hostages were taken and held for 11 days - as well as lesser-known disturbances whose details are equally gripping. The book explores the conditions that precipitate disturbances, the course of events during the disturbances, and...