• states using the trusty system were also forced to give it up under the ruling. Prisons had trusties as far back as the 1800s. The prison had approximately...
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  • system (prison) (or "trustee system"), system of discipline and security in prisons Trusteeism, a Roman Catholic parish administration system Trusty Gina...
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    the trusty system, (where lifers were armed with rifles and set to guard other inmates), was abolished. The state was required to integrate the prison facilities...
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    Plantations in the American South#Overseer Triangulation (psychology) Trusty system (prison) Kapo, a 1960 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Escape from Sobibor...
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    the reformation of the prison system in the U.S. According to the Oxford History of the Prison, in order to function prisons "keep prisoners in custody...
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    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...
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    Angola once and for all, ordering the end of the Trustee-Officer and Trusty systems. Efforts to reform and improve conditions at Angola have continued....
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    Prison and Penal Farm Old Atlanta Prison Farm Tom Murton Trusty system Lunau, Kate. "Canada to shut down all prison farms". Maclean's, April 13, 2009...
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  • Justice (TDCJ) prison for men, located in unincorporated Houston County, Texas. Formerly called the Eastham Unit or "The Ham," the prison was renamed the...
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    Underfunded and mostly operated by so-called 'trusties' (inmates); corrupt and dangerous conditions plagued Arkansas prisons for decades, culminating in several...
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