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Scar'd Times: Maine's Prisoners' Rights Movement, 1971-1976, Daniel S. Chard
Scar'd Times: Maine's Prisoners' Rights Movement, 1971-1976, Daniel S. Chard
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
In late 1972, prisoners and ex-convicts in Maine formed Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform (SCAR), a radical prisoners' rights organization that provoked a thoroughgoing public discussion on the function of prisons in Maine and in American society that lasted for about two years. Working for prison reform through legislation, litigation, and community organizing, SCAR influenced a Maine public unusually receptive to new approaches to criminal justice due to the impact of nationwide prison rebellions and the widely publicized massacre of forty-three prisoners and guards in New York’s Attica State Prison on September 13, 1971. As SCAR members, frustrated by the …