Attica Prison Riot Analysis
Analysis Essay
CJ/407
Monday May 26, 2014
The Attica Prison Riot
This paper reflects on two crisis situations, The 1972 Olympic Terrorist attack in Munich, Germany, and The Attica Prison Riot of 1971. This paper will discuss what went wrong on behalf of the negotiators and how things could’ve of different with a properly trained crisis negotiation team. The ongoing crisis staging in prisons and at local police departments makes it possible for a crisis team to have well thought out plans to prevent fatalities including suicides and hostage killings. There are various tactics, such as active listening skills used by negotiators to hopefully reason with hostage takers and get them to surrender. In The …show more content…
The inmates wanted better living conditions, fair wages, better treatment, and religious freedom. One may believe that criminals should be treated like caged animals because they have committed criminal offense, but in reality prisons are human and deserve to be treated as such (Adkins, 2011). What turned the riot into a disaster was the fact that Governor Nelson Rockefeller was unwilling to allow proper negotiations to diffuse the situation. Instead, the Governor ordered an assault which took the lives of several prisoners and law enforcement officers. Nearly 40 people died at the command of one person, who refused to compromise with the inmates. The negligence of Governor Nelson Rockefeller cost many people their lives and the loved ones of these people also suffered (Rosenberg, …show more content…
The crisis negotiator would be able to communicate with the hostage takers to get to the root of the problem, secure the hostages, and possibly end the crisis without fatalities. Prisons now act out crisis situations involving the taking of hostages in order to be prepared if a duplicate of the Attica Riot would somehow take place. The acting scene is a necessary part of training for Corrections Officers employed by the prisons. The Germs used time which only delayed the killings of the hostages by the terrorists and at the end it shows that there was no way out for these innocent
CJ/407
Monday May 26, 2014
The Attica Prison Riot
This paper reflects on two crisis situations, The 1972 Olympic Terrorist attack in Munich, Germany, and The Attica Prison Riot of 1971. This paper will discuss what went wrong on behalf of the negotiators and how things could’ve of different with a properly trained crisis negotiation team. The ongoing crisis staging in prisons and at local police departments makes it possible for a crisis team to have well thought out plans to prevent fatalities including suicides and hostage killings. There are various tactics, such as active listening skills used by negotiators to hopefully reason with hostage takers and get them to surrender. In The …show more content…
The inmates wanted better living conditions, fair wages, better treatment, and religious freedom. One may believe that criminals should be treated like caged animals because they have committed criminal offense, but in reality prisons are human and deserve to be treated as such (Adkins, 2011). What turned the riot into a disaster was the fact that Governor Nelson Rockefeller was unwilling to allow proper negotiations to diffuse the situation. Instead, the Governor ordered an assault which took the lives of several prisoners and law enforcement officers. Nearly 40 people died at the command of one person, who refused to compromise with the inmates. The negligence of Governor Nelson Rockefeller cost many people their lives and the loved ones of these people also suffered (Rosenberg, …show more content…
The crisis negotiator would be able to communicate with the hostage takers to get to the root of the problem, secure the hostages, and possibly end the crisis without fatalities. Prisons now act out crisis situations involving the taking of hostages in order to be prepared if a duplicate of the Attica Riot would somehow take place. The acting scene is a necessary part of training for Corrections Officers employed by the prisons. The Germs used time which only delayed the killings of the hostages by the terrorists and at the end it shows that there was no way out for these innocent