• states using the trusty system were also forced to give it up under the ruling. Prisons had trusties as far back as the 1800s. The prison had approximately...
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  • system (prison) (or "trustee system"), system of discipline and security in prisons Trusteeism, a Roman Catholic parish administration system Trusty Gina...
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    the trusty system, (where lifers were armed with rifles and set to guard other inmates), was abolished. The state was required to integrate the prison facilities...
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    Plantations in the American South#Overseer Triangulation (psychology) Trusty system (prison) Kapo, a 1960 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Escape from Sobibor...
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    the reformation of the prison system in the U.S. According to the Oxford History of the Prison, in order to function prisons "keep prisoners in custody...
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    Angola once and for all, ordering the end of the Trustee-Officer and Trusty systems. Efforts to reform and improve conditions at Angola have continued....
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    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...
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    Prison and Penal Farm Old Atlanta Prison Farm Tom Murton Trusty system Lunau, Kate. "Canada to shut down all prison farms". Maclean's, April 13, 2009...
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    Underfunded and mostly operated by so-called 'trusties' (inmates); corrupt and dangerous conditions plagued Arkansas prisons for decades, culminating in several...
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  • Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the...
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  • attending chapel at the Charlestown State Prison. Despite an attempted intervening tackle from a prisoner trusty and bullets from a guard's gun, Nelson ran...
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  • Prison art is art that is created by persons who are imprisoned. Prison art is unique in several ways. Due to the low social status of prisoners, art...
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    Arkansas prison system serve to distinguish it from most other penal institutions in this country. First, it has very few paid employees; armed trusties ["trusted"...
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    Ellis Unit (redirect from Ellis prison)
    former prison director of Texas. George Beto designed the unit, making it to be the strictest prison in the system, and Jim Estelle, the following prison director...
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  • Brubaker (category 1980s prison drama films)
    prison grounds where influential trusty Huey Rauch and his girlfriend Carol lived. After a faulty roof cave-in in the prison barracks, Brubaker meets with...
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    Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison for females in Gatesville, Texas. The prison is along Texas State Highway 36, 3 miles (4.8 km)...
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    prison trusties had escaped by walking away. In 1992, the Idaho State Historical Society recorded oral history interviews with fifteen former prison guards...
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  • Tom Murton (category Penal system in the United States)
    of money from other inmates by the armed prisoners who were working as "trusty" guards (due to the absence of a salaried guard force), open marketing of...
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    from prison libraries. Modern US prison healthcare arose after events like the Arkansas prison scandal of 1968 revealed the corruption of the Trusty system...
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    security housing. Taking full advantage of his "trusty" status, Alton escaped with a fellow inmate in a prison vehicle marked "Registrar of Motor Vehicles"...
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    Unit (previously Ramsey I Unit) is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison farm located in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, with a Rosharon postal...
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    Clemens Unit (redirect from Clemens Prison)
    acreage, bringing the prison to a total of 8,116 acres (3,284 ha). In 1935 Clemens housed African-American prisoners when the system was segregated. In 1963...
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    the United States Ruiz v. Estelle Slavery in the 21st century#Prison labor Trusty system Punishment in America: A Reference Handbook, by Cyndi Banks, page...
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  • intervention in the constitutionality of the operation of state prison systems. Trusty system Gates v. Collier Pervear v. Massachusetts "U.S. Constitution:...
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    Penal labour (redirect from Prison labor)
    Coproduction of public services by service users and communities Galley slave Trusty system UNICOR Secretariat, United Nations. (1962). "Yearbook on Human Rights"...
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    Gates v. Collier (category Penal system in Mississippi)
    decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that brought an end to the trusty system as well as flagrant inmate abuse at Mississippi State Penitentiary,...
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  • Mountjoy Prison by the end of 2013 and in Cork Prison in 2016. However, the practice continues at Limerick Prison. A "potwalloper" was a trusty prisoner...
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    Wynne Unit (redirect from Wynne Prison Unit)
    oldest prison in Texas, was named after John Magruder Wynne, who served as a prison employee and later as a board member of the prison system from 1878...
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    Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (category Prison gangs in the United States)
    the desegregation of Texas prisons and the dismantling of the "Building Tender", or Trusty system, a system in which prison officials used other inmates...
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  • Fortress (1992 film) (category 1990s prison films)
    Purdy-Gordon as Voice of Zed-10, the computer system that oversees the prison Lincoln Kilpatrick as Abraham, a prison trusty Jeffrey Combs as "D-Day", a computer...
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