The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books)

Bates, Gordon S.

ISBN 10: 081957676X / ISBN 13: 9780819576767

Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081957676X
• ISBN 13: 9780819576767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state’s criminal justice system. Now organized under the name Community Partners in Action (CPA), the Connecticut Prison Association was formed to ameliorate the conditions of criminal defendants and people in prison, improve the discipline and administration of local jails and state prisons, and furnish assistance and encouragement to people returning to their communities after incarceration. The organization took a leading role in prison reform in the state and was instrumental in a number of criminal justice innovations. Gordon S. Bates, former Connecticut Prison Association volunteer and executive director (1980–1998), offers a detailed history of this and similar voluntary associations and their role in fostering a rehabilitative, rather than a retributive, approach to criminal justice. First convened in 1875 as the Friends of Partners of Prisoners Society, then evolving into the Connecticut Prison Association and CPA, the organization has consistently advocated for a humane, rehabilitative approach to prisoner treatment.

About the Author

GORDON S. BATES is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He was a CPA volunteer; then part of the staff of the Connecticut Prison Association for over 28 years; and now lives in Cromwell, Connecticut.