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18 Crime & Delinquency 2 (1972)

handle is hein.journals/cadq18 and id is 1 raw text is: COMMITTEE ON THE MODEL ACT Foreword F OR MANY YEARS NCCD has ex- pressed the public's concern over prison disturbances and riots. In the last twenty years our assistance has been requested by various commis- sions that were established following serious riots. We have participated in surveys conducted by these commis- sions and have developed legislative as well as administrative responses to the conditions revealed. Although riots continue to occur- and the abuses to which they are a response still prevail in many places- a new element has been added to prisoner grievances: an assertion both of positive rights and of the right to be protected against abuse. This can be regarded only as a heartening de- velopment. The court decisions that have responded to the grievances by granting relief affect the prison system as a whole as well as the individual petitioners. Certainly this mode of seeking redress-through petitions to the court, to administrators, and to legislators-is better than communica- tion by riot. The Model Act set forth below is an effort to respond positively to the new emphasis in prisoner grievances. It points out that the legislatures thus far have been almost totally unrespon- sive to prisoner efforts to seek redress in positive ways. At the same time the act is, we hope, a support to courts to which the issue of abuse is presented, and to administrators who can, if they will, avoid both litigation and distur- bances by instituting needed reforms, by recognizing that men and women are imprisoned not to be abused- either by other prisoners or by the system-but to be helped. The entire community is better served by treating prisoners humanely than by ultimately releasing persons who are more embittered and callous than when they were committed. Our thanks go to the distinguished committee that worked with us in producing the Model Act for the Pro- tection of Rights of Prisoners. -MILTON G. RECTOR Director, NCCD 2

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