Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Introduction

Part I. Challenging Custodial Hegemony

2. Litigation, Rebellions, Reprisals, and Reforms

3. The Attica Prison Rebellion and the Latina(o) Community Inside and Outside the Walls

Part II. Latino Prisoners: Green Haven Correctional Facility

4. Latino Prisoners and the Institutional Context for Reforms

5. Latino Prisoner Participation in Informal Groups and Networks

6. Political Underground Prisoner Groups and Coalitions

7. Latino Prisoner Groups, Penal Personnel, and Third Parties

8. Latino Prisoners Regroup, DOCS Reevaluates

Part III. Latina Prisoners: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

9. Latina Prisoners and the Institutional Context

10. Latina Participation in Informal Groups and Networks and the Formation of Formal Prisoner Groups

11. Litigation, Third Party Support, and Prisoner Politicization

12. Liberalization: The Other Side of Security, Bedford Hills 1982-1987

13. Conclusion: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Appendix A: Latinas(os) and Criminal Justice Statistics

Appendix B: Tables

Appendix C: Relevant Court Cases

Appendix D: The Folsom Prisoners' Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Oppression Platform

Appendix E: Observers' Proposals (Based on the Attica Prisoners' Demands)

Appendix F: Latino Prisoner Organizations

About the Author

Index