According to Sykes (2007), prison is the tool that the state or the criminal justice system uses to achieve the desires of society toward a convicted criminal (Sykes, 2007). Prisons are assigned different tasks. These tasks include self-maintenance, custody, internal order, punishment and the task of reform. The task of internal order was the most difficult for the New Jersey State Prison to accomplish in the 1950s. According to Sykes (2007), maintaining internal order in the New Jersey State Prison posed a great challenge to the guards. In the 1950, the New Jersey State Prison housed some dangerous inmates. The New Jersey State Prison population in 1950 was comprised of sexual psychopaths, aggressive “wolves” that were known for starting
