Primary Sources
Exercise 1
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Fireside Chat, May 7, 1933.
- Excerpts from Kenyon Judson Scudder interview: Criminologist and Social Engineer. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1967, Special Collections Stacks Call no. 300/49.
- Excerpts from Wayne Hunnicutt interview by Volker Janssen, Dec. 8, 2003, at Petaluma, California. (Recording in Volker Janssen’s possession). (5:41)
- Excerpts from Inmate Case File: Arthur Aceves (A-60028), received June 27, 1960.
Exercise 2
- Citizens of Weott to the Warden of San Quentin, Feb. 12, 1960, folder F3717:402 Corrections—Conservation Camp Services, Camps–CDF–High Rock, 1959–1961, Department of Corrections Records, California State Archives.
- Dr. W. H. Heinzmann to Gov. Earl Warren, Dec. 6, 1950, folder F3640:921, Department of Corrections Jan.–Feb. 1950, Administrative Files, Earl Warren Papers.
- Carmen Wood to Gov. Earl Warren, Feb. 8, 1950, folder F3640:921, Department of Corrections Jan.–Feb. 1950, Administrative Files, Earl Warren Papers.
- Englewood Lumber Company’s President H. D. Wheeler to Ronald Reagan, Feb. 1, 1971, Conservation folder, box 56, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Records Unit 1971.
Exercise 3
- Excerpts from Norman Fenton, What Will Be Your Life? (Sacramento, 1955), pp. 18–19, 57 (a guidebook to prisoners, comparing their experience with crime and incarceration with the trauma of military service).
- Excerpts from Pioneer News, 1944, pp. 10, 12, folder F3717:1839 Institutions, Publications, California Institution for Men (Chino) Newsletters 1945–1946, 1966, Department of Corrections Records, California State Archives.
- David Vorce, A-43179, Chair of Inmate Council to Folsom Warden F. R. Dickson, Sept. 11, 1961, folder F3717:436 Corrections—Conservation Camp Services, Camps—U.S. F.S. 1951–54, 59–62, Department of Corrections Records, California State Archives.
- Prisoners set backfires, early 1950s
- Prisoners filling sandbags to dam a flood in the San Joaquin Valley
- Prisoners on the fireline, ca. 1965
- Prisoners learning tools on the fire line, ca. 1962
- Prisoners marching to fire, ca. 1961
- Save Resources—Help Themselves
- Prisoners and staff at the chow line, ca. 1953
Exercise 4
- Ronald Reagan, Speech to the National Sheriff’s Association, June 19, 1967.
- Brinton H. Stone to Gov. Ronald Reagan, Feb. 26, 1968, folder Riots June (2 of 2), box 1968/83, Correspondence Unit, Administration. Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Records.
- Bayard Rustin, “The Watts ‘Manifesto’ & the McCone Report,” in Commentary, 41 (no. 3, 1966), 29–35.
- Letter from James Williams, Office of Former President, NAACP, Feb. 2, 1973, folder F3717:1780 Conservation Camp Services, California Conservation Center, Correspondence, 1972–76, Department of Corrections Records.