By H. Toch and D. Grant.
We propose an intervention designed to assist inmates who are chronic disciplinary violators but who are also disturbed or psychologically disabled. A recently completed survey of such inmates in New York Studies of Disturbed and/or Disruptive Inmates, supported by NIMH) suggests that these inmates create problems out of proportion to their numbers and are not deterred through the application of disciplinary penalties.
By Hans Toch
Letter of accepttance: “Dear Hans, I am in receipt of your draft proposal for an "innovative research program" and I think it is an excellent proposal with which I fully concur.
The setting in which you propose to conduct the program may already be available here and in operation. We have a unit called the Diagnostic and Evaluation Unit to which any inmate can be sent from any correctional facility by administrative transfer who is thought by the institutional personnel to be evidencing emotional problems and to be in need of more intensive evaluation and treatment.”
Department Of Correctional Services. Matteawan State Hospital. 1974. 12p.
By Hans Toch and James R. Acker
From the letter of acceptance:
Dear Jim and Hans, I read your article "Accommodation, Sponsorship, and Religious Activities in Prison" with great interest….Your manuscript is the best submission I have received since I began my tenure with the CLB. If one's target Is to fite a first-rate "law review" article, you hit the mark again I wish I had written your article….Hence, I am delighted to extend an offer of publication. If I may, for a short while, I will delay informing you of the issue in which could appear.
Kind regards,
Jim
James E. Robertson, J.D., M.A., Diploma in Law Distinguished Professor of Corrections Editor-in-Chief, The Criminal Law Bulletin Minnesota State University
Report on HM Special Unit.
Scottish department. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland. 1993.
The Scottish Ollice, Design, Print and Publication Service GF1229 1 1/93. 44p.
By Keith Bottomnley, Atton Llebling and Richard Sparks
A Report prepared for the Scottish Office. December. 1992. 92p.
By Hans Toch
"The prisoner should hold the key to his own cell" is a well-known phrase coined by Captain Alexander Maconochie in the 1830s, before h e embarked for a historic assignment at the Norfolk Island colony, where he invented parole and established the world's very first prison incentive system. A subtitle of a recent book about Maconochie (Morris, 2002) alludes to "the roots of modern prison reform."
Pre-publication. Prison Service Journal. ND. 10p.
By Hans Toch
“In 1924, a town in West Virginia wanted to become the site of the first federal reformatory for women. To attract this prize the town donated 202 acres of prime pasture adjoining a river, a railroad, and a neighboring farm that became available at distress prices.”"
Pre-publication, The Prisonjournal, Vol. T3 No. 1, March 1994 62-12 ©1994 Sage Publications, Inc
By Hans Toch. Pre-Publication Draft (Confidential). 1950s. 31p.
By Hans Toch and David Lovell. Draft paper. July 20. Unknown year.
“…I made the point of mentioning that he prisoner they were considering had written in an essay for publication that he would have denied his own parole at earlier stages of his sentence…” Presentation at the Annual meeting and Conference of Ingternayional Correctional Prisons Association, October 28 (2009) 10 pages.
“In an effort to be useful I have occasionally shared a few research findings with humane and thoughtful practitioners…” Report on a workshop for practitioner-participants. (1975) 12 pages.
“Most problems in prisons originate outside their walls.” Pre-published paper. Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition. (1999 ) 28 pages.
“I recently left my family to spend a week at a neighboring motel. The adventure was heavily subsidized by state and federal funds…” Paper presented at the Forensic Psychiatry Conference on Psychiatric and Psychological Services in Jails and Prisons, Bellevue Medical Center, November (1983) 18 pages,
“Toward the end of 1970, two inmates hanged themselves within two weeks of each other at the Manhattan House of Detention.” Unpublished paper. (ca. 1971) 15 pages.
“…prisons do not control their intake populations..” In press, Prison Service Journal. (ca. 2012) 9 pages.
Prepared for the 1978 Colloquium on Stress and Crime (Mitre Corporation). This working paper rejects…the ‘structuralist’ approach to prison stress, which places emphasis on ‘built-in’ stressors affecting inmates and some prison staff…” (1978) 14 pages.
“Part if what I mean by ‘liberating the guard’ is releasing him from the pressures that relegate him to custodial work…” Proceedings of the 15th Interagency Workshop Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice Center. May 18024. (1980) 6 pages.
Furnishing Care, Custody, and Data For Research Foreword. . “The fact that prison officers are called ‘officers’ and that they wear uniforms has helped to obfuscate the question of what they do and what they are…” (2011) 3 pages.
Assaults within Psychiatric Facilities by John Lion and William Reid, reviewed by Hans Toch for the journal Aggressive Behavior. “…a moral quagmire and a challenge to the heart and the conscience…” (1984) 5 pages.
A Diagnostic Classification designed specifically for prison clinical staff. “A little learning may be a dangerous thing, but too much learning is wasteful… [The] three core categories of classification are (1) nut, (2) the schnook, and (3) the crumb.” (ca. 1997) 3 pages.
