_{POLS/PSYCH/SOC 278: PRISONS AND PRISONERS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY - FALL, 2008
                                                                                                                  
Note: This course is limited to Seniors or Juniors with special permission.  The four components to this course are outlined below.}                          

1. _{Trips to Two Prisons: Each student will take two Saturday (all day) trips to New York State Correctional Facilities. We will visit two prisons on each trip, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. One will be Eastern (a men's maximum security facility in Nappanoch) and another will be Woodburne (a men's medium facility). There is also a remote chance that we will visit another correctional facility.  The trips were scheduled for October 25 and November 8.  We will have an orientation meeting on 9/29/08 before the first trip.}
2. 
   _{Note: Senior students must pick up and fill out a form available in 410 Fitzelle in order to get D.O.C permission to visit the prisons. (The names of students must be submitted a week before the first  visit). Our group must depart from the front of the Netzer Administration Building at 9:00 SHARP on both Saturdays and will return approximately 11 p.m. Dress is casual. Bring  money for food. You must also bring a photo identification card or drivers license or some other formal ID.}
    
3. _{Required Readings: They should  be completed before the first trip date specified. The readings include (1) Jason deParle, "The American Prison Nightmare", New York Review of Books 4-12-07} http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20056 _{The remaining items below are on closed reserve at Milne Library.}

                   _{4. Group Discussion - Attendance Required: A meeting to discuss some
                    impressions, hypotheses, and questions about prisons and the criminal
                    justice system. It is scheduled for the Sunday night after the second trip
                    and after the second break (November 9), at 7pm in the Hunt Student Union.}         

                   _{5. Written Evaluation: The final requirement is a three to five page paper that organizes and summarizes your impressions of and questions about the prison system based   upon the two trips, the assigned readings, and subsequent discussions.  Your essay should be a personal critique/think piece which clearly expresses your thinking about crime and    punishment in this society. It must be submitted no later than two weeks after the final group discussion.}

The previous course requirements are on this outline: http://employees.oneonta.edu/conwaypg/278SYL2     000.htm.htm