The Phoenix Magazine coverage of the hostage crisis at Lewis Prison in 2004 relates to Britton’s study in that the correctional officers who were in the prison received training that was not uniform in its delivery, and nobody knew how to properly avert or handle a hostage crisis.
According to Britton, a total institution is a place in which people live their entire lives. Specific to prison as a total institution, the inhabitants are there involuntarily, and thereby hostile and uncooperative, inhabitants desire subversion, and corrections officers are put into total control of the inhabitants’ lives.
Britton recommends in closing that prisons give corrections officers uniform and specified training based on what type of inmates they are projected to work with. If the officers in the Lewis Prison hostage situation had received thorough, specified and actual training on how to handle their prison and their inmates, then they would have been equipped to, at the very least, deal with the situation, if not prevent it from occurring altogether.
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