ABSTRACT
Unlike the prisons and prison systems described by Jacobs, Irwin and Dilulio, the conditions at Auburn between 1976 and 1986 reflect a high degree of organiza tional and administrative stability. Robert Henderson has been superintendent at Auburn since 1972. Thomas Coughlin has been Commissioner since 1978. In this respect, these administrators have been able to oversee the process by which “...correctional philosophy can be translated into policy decrees and then into a bureaucratic routine of administrative action...”31 and they appear to have done so without developing the “cult of personality” so evident in Dilulio’s descriptions of Texas, California, Michigan and Jacobs’ discussion of Stateville.
