Sources and Recommended Reading

Primary Sources

Bounds, Vernon L.  “Report of Riot at Central Prison: April, 1968.” North Carolina Department of Corrections, 1968.

“G.S. 148-46 Degree of Protection Against Violence Allowed.” North Carolina General Assembly.

Hart, Reese. “Warden Has Trouble Finding Enough Cells.” Rocky Mount Telegram. October 5, 1958.

Lowe, Linda.  “Bounds Reflects on Central Prison Riots.” The Daily Tar Heel. October 30, 1975. 

Moore, Dan K. “Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers of Daniel Killian Moore: Governor of North Carolina 1965-1969.” Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1971.

“North Carolina Riot is Studied.” The Jackson Sun. April 18, 1968.

Scott, Robert W. “Addresses and Public Papers of Robert Walter Scott, Governor of North Carolina, 1969-1973.” Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1974.

Secondary Sources

Crabtree, David. “32 Years After Deadly Riot, Lessons Learned at Raleigh’s Central Prison.” WRAL. April 16, 2000.

Christianson, Scott. The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2010. *see Chapter 5

Korstad, Robert R., James L. Leloudis, and Billy Barnes. To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Parham, Mary Moore. “Inmates Say Overcrowding Problem Robs Them of Adequate Living Conditions.” The Daily Tar Heel. March 20, 1991.

Process History. “Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part One, Building Movements,” September 20, 2016. http://www.processhistory.org/prisoners-rights-1/

Taylor, Antony. Prison System and its Effects: Where from, Where to, and Why? New York City: Nova Science Publishers, 1999.

Thompson, Heather Ann. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. First edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 2016.

Recommended Reading

On Prisoner Organizing and Activism

Austin MacCormick. “Behind the Prison Riots.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 293, May (1954): 17–27.

“Collective Violence in Correctional Institutions: A Search for Causes.” Columbia, South Carolina Department of Corrections, 1973.

Hager, Eli. “Let’s Go to Prison!” The Marshall Project (blog), December 14, 2016. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/12/14/let-s-go-to-prison

Kindig, Jessie. “Organizing the Prisons in the 1960s and 1970s: Part One, Building Movements.” Process History (blog). September 20, 2016. http://www.processhistory.org/prisoners-rights-1/

On Mass Incarceration and Racism in Southern Prisons

Alexander, Michelle. New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2020.

Forman, James. Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Hinton, Elizabeth Kai. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016.

Parsons, Anne E. From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 

On Reform

Hughett, Amanda Bell. “The Making of Modern Prison Policy in North Carolina and the Nation.” Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University, 2017.

King, Wayne. “North Carolina’s Leaders Worried By Blemishes on the State’s Image.” New York Times. February 22, 1978, sec. A.

Pfaff, John F. Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration–and How to Achieve Real Reform. New York: Basic Books, 2017.

Steven D. Hinckley. Bounds and Beyond: A Need to Reevaluate the Right of Prison Access to the Courts, 22 U. Rich. L. Rev. 19, 1987.

Other

Christianson, Scott. The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2010.

Korstad, Robert R., James L. Leloudis, and Billy Barnes. To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.