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Editor's Notes

• #2: The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions. On September 9, 1971, responding, in part, to the death of prisoner George Jackson, an activist prisoner who had been shot to death by corrections officers in California's San Quentin Prison on August 21, about 1,000 of the Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rebelled and seized control of the prison, taking 33 staff hostage. During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to 28 of the prisoners' demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent. By the order of then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was over, at least 39 people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian employees.
• #3: Purpose: To present a non-criminal justice example as to what is dynamic/static and how it is difficult to change everything at once. This is an American Heart Association risk assessment for likelihood of heart attack. It includes factors that are statistically related to a person’s likelihood of having a heart attack. Some are static (age, sex, family history, medical history) and others are dynamic (e.g. weight, smoking, blood pressure). Discuss how a doctor would reduce likelihood of heart attack by addressing dynamic factors not the static ones. Relate this to using a risk assessment like the ORAS for case planning and changing an offender’s risk. Note the difficulty in changing all these things at once. Relate it back to the offender’s experience as they enter supervision.
• #10: We can think of cognitive structure like an iceberg. What is above the water is what you can see. But danger of the iceberg lies beneath the surface. Cutting off the top won’t significantly alter the mass of the iceburg. Likewise, unless we deal with thinking - the behaviors we can’t see. It is difficult to change the actions that we can.