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

About the Author

Christopher Murray graduated from Stanford University and the University of Washington. His award-winning consulting firm provided planning, research, and policy analysis to correctional agencies in eleven states.

Reviews

"[Murray] portrays the key players with a genuine feeling for their strengths, weaknesses and challenges."--John A. McCoy, author of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla

"[Unusual Punishment is] a terrific, if unsettling, even chilling, read."--James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law at NYU and author of Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society

"Murray captures the turbulent, chaotic and violent era of the penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington as if he were an eye witness."--Ned Loughran, Executive Director, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

"This is the most comprehensive analysis I have ever seen of the evolution of a state prison system."--Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

Table of Contents

About the Author

Reviews