Prisons act as a deterrent, which reinforce social regulation and also keeps equilibrium in society. They make up for the failing of other institutions like the family and educational system by restoring order for who break the laws. In Descent Into Madness: The New Mexico State Prison Riot by Mark Colvin discussed his motivation of understanding the content and the history of the prison riot is of the utmost importance in how the the riot could actually had occurred. In his riot study, he explained the destruction by the inmates who acted heroically and at times risked their lives as well as the violent inmates who will brutally harm each other. The author argues that state-wide organizational changes manifested themselves at the Penitentiary …show more content…
The biases present such as how one of the inmate attempt to turn the riot into s protest after three hours after the riot started, but not exactly when the riot occurred. The “Snitch System” developed and to intimidate the inmates by the strike participants and leaders as a form of torture, "Snitch jackets", which forced prisoners to tell on others otherwise you just get branded as one anyway which means you have to fear for your own life whether you did anything or not, some of the guards abused their power daily and it was over-crowded to an inhumane level. Another bias present is how the riot caused $20 million in physical damage to the institution and more than $200 in riot-related expenses. About 12 officers were supervising the inmates, did not take leadership trying to stop the riot yet watched this event occurred. Prisoners who committed the acts of violence during the riot had to learned the behavior through a process of socialization. Another bias is how The structure of prison community gives the interdependence to the individual's’ actions For example, .the members of subculture group and the ‘ordinary’ prisoners who do not belong to subculture groups would have less interactions and will turn on against each other. The prison administration put polar opposites inmates in the institution who do not have any common relation with each other and are personalities, and their identity, strong and