Convict Criminology Session 2: USP Marion: Prisoners of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

USP Marion was the first modern attempt to build and manage a supermax facility, and serves as a model for construction of similar federal and state facilities. Since the 1980's, Marion has been employed as a disciplinary lock down facility for federal prisoners received from USP Leavenworth (KS), USP Atlanta (GA), USP Lewisburg (PA), USP Lompoc (CA), and United States Medical Center Federal Penitentiary (USMCFP) Springfield (MO). The permanent lock down began in 1983. The FBOP used Marion to isolate Level 6 maximum-security male prisoners who were escape risks, political problems, a threat to the order of other institutions, or had assaulted or murdered prisoners or correctional staff.

Sub Unit

• Area I. Causes of Crime and Criminal Behavior / 1. Convict Criminology

Individual Presentations

• The United State’s War on Drugs and the Federal Bureau of Prisons: Creation of a New Class of Political Prisoner - Grant Tietjen, St. Ambrose University

• Women Prisoners of the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Brooke Wollner, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• African American Prisoners of the Federal Bureau of Prisoners - Shariah Salahaladyn, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• Familial Incarceration in the Lives of African American Women - Evelyn Joy Patterson, Vanderbilt University; Tony Nicholas Brown, Vanderbilt University

Chair

• Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore

Discussant

• Stephen C. Richards, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh