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20 Crime & Delinquency 1 (1974)

handle is hein.journals/cadq20 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime and Delinquency * National Council on Crime and Delinquency 0 Volume 20 January 1974 Number I Peaceful Settlement of Prison Conflict A Policy Statement BOARD OF DIRECTORS, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY L IFE IN PRISON is antithetical to the principles of individual responsi- bility and freedom of choice in a free society. Under the circumstances, conflict between prisoners and the employees and environment of a cor- rectional institution would seem to be an inherent consequence of imprison- ment. When worsening conditions of incarceration and rising expectations of prison reform are added, the result is conflict, which often escalates into a riot ending in injury and death. Settlement through violence has usually hastened reform of the more obvious abuses, but at a terrible price. Tragedies such as Attica have shocked the nation into the realization that alternative solutions must be found and orderly procedures for the han- dling of inmate grievances must be developed. 1 Prisons that may appear on the sur- face to be untroubled often obscure human tragedies of even greater di- mensions than those which are exposed by riots. For these reasons and to reduce the use of institutions for other than dan- gerous offenders, NCCD has called for a halt to the construction of prisons in favor of implementing noninstitu- tional alternatives.' The feasibility of settling prison conflict peaceably by arbitration, medi- ation, and negotiation is supported by experience in the nonviolent resolu- tion of disputes between labor and management and between competing businesses and industrial firms, and by 1. Institutional Construction-A Policy Statement (April 25, 1972), Crime and De- linquency, October 1972, pp. 351-32.

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