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Table of Contents
Preface

Part 1: Super Custody Before 1970
1. The Prison
2. The Men
3. The Warden
4. The Reformers

Part 2: Changes 1970-1973
5. The Education of Bobby Rhay
6. Superagency
7. The Four Reforms
8. The Christmas Strike
9. New Beginnings
10. Rhay Takes Charge
11. Making History
12. Unintended Consequences
13. Red Flags
14. Under the Radar

Part 3: Descent 1973-1977
15. California Connection
16. Capitulation
17. Harvey
18. Lines in the Sand
19. Parallel Tracks
20. The Third Floor
21. The Goon Squad
22. Power Shift
23. Abdication
24. B. J. Rhay's Final Chapter

Part 4: Nadir 1977-1978
25. Vinzant
26. Prison Management
27. Rules to Live By
28. The Wastebasket Caper
29. Spring Cleaning
30. The MAS Banquet
31. "A Little Guard"
32. Post Mortem

Part 5: War 1978-1981
33. Dysfunction
34. The Party's Over
35. The Midnight Express
36. Power Vacuum
37. Cross
38. Shakedown
39. Saturday Night Live
40. Breakdown
41. A Victory of Sorts
42. Dog Days of Summer
43. Hoptowit
44. Political Fallout

Part 6: Transformation 1981-1985
45. A Department is Born
46. First Steps
47. Kautzky
48. Building Blocks
49. IMU
50. Three Years Later

Afterword

Appendices
A. Persons mentioned
B. Persons interviewed and interview dates

Notes

Index

The Cover Photograph--About the Photographer

Unusual Punishment

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      Publisher: Washington State University Press
      Publication Date: 11/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9780874223392, 978-0874223392
      ISBN10: 0874223393

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Preface

      Part 1: Super Custody Before 1970
      1. The Prison
      2. The Men
      3. The Warden
      4. The Reformers

      Part 2: Changes 1970-1973
      5. The Education of Bobby Rhay
      6. Superagency
      7. The Four Reforms
      8. The Christmas Strike
      9. New Beginnings
      10. Rhay Takes Charge
      11. Making History
      12. Unintended Consequences
      13. Red Flags
      14. Under the Radar

      Part 3: Descent 1973-1977
      15. California Connection
      16. Capitulation
      17. Harvey
      18. Lines in the Sand
      19. Parallel Tracks
      20. The Third Floor
      21. The Goon Squad
      22. Power Shift
      23. Abdication
      24. B. J. Rhay's Final Chapter

      Part 4: Nadir 1977-1978
      25. Vinzant
      26. Prison Management
      27. Rules to Live By
      28. The Wastebasket Caper
      29. Spring Cleaning
      30. The MAS Banquet
      31. "A Little Guard"
      32. Post Mortem

      Part 5: War 1978-1981
      33. Dysfunction
      34. The Party's Over
      35. The Midnight Express
      36. Power Vacuum
      37. Cross
      38. Shakedown
      39. Saturday Night Live
      40. Breakdown
      41. A Victory of Sorts
      42. Dog Days of Summer
      43. Hoptowit
      44. Political Fallout

      Part 6: Transformation 1981-1985
      45. A Department is Born
      46. First Steps
      47. Kautzky
      48. Building Blocks
      49. IMU
      50. Three Years Later

      Afterword

      Appendices
      A. Persons mentioned
      B. Persons interviewed and interview dates

      Notes

      Index

      The Cover Photograph--About the Photographer

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