Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q6144543> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 44 of
44
with 100 triples per page.
- Q6144543 description "Prison official".
- Q6144543 description "Prison official".
- Q6144543 subject Q6469561.
- Q6144543 subject Q6646885.
- Q6144543 subject Q8247672.
- Q6144543 subject Q9710303.
- Q6144543 abstract "James Van Benschoten Bennett (born 29 August 1894 in Silver Creek, New York, United States; died 1978) was a leading American penal reformer and prison administrator who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) from 1937 to 1964. He was Assistant Director of the Bureau to Sanford Bates prior to this from 1930-1937. A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War I, he became an Investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Efficiency in 1919 and in 1928 authored "The Federal Penal and Correctional Problem" whilst there which called for a new centralized prison bureau which led to the creation of the Bureau of Prisons.Bennett was of the view that prisons had become inhumane and poorly operated and that extensive reform was needed. From as early as 1939 he was a strong critic of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. During the 1950s he was one of the strongest advocates in the movement in persuading Congress to close Alcatraz and replace it with a new maximum-security prison, eventually successful in 1963 when it closed. He was also a prominent member of numerous U.S. delegations to the International Penal and Penitentiary Congress and the United Nations' Congress on the Prevention of Crime and President of many institutions such as the National Association for Better Broadcasting and American Correctional Association (ACA), and was chairman of the American Bar Association Section on Criminal Law.Beginning on August 11, 1943, eighteen conscientious objectors of World War II at the Danbury Correctional Institution in Connecticut, went on a 135-day work strike to end Jim Crow in the prison dining room. The strike ended on December 22, 1943, after the warden promised to initiate an integration policy starting February 1, 1944. James Bennett, a moderate on race, believed white and black prisoners must be segregated to maintain order and prevent violence. On September 1, 1943, Bennett wrote to Lowell Naeve, a Danbury prisoner involved in the work strike for integration, charging him with resorting to "undemocratic methods of coercion to force a change." Bennett also denounced the tactics used by pacifists in prison. "Strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience," he argued, "certainly are not the democratic method of accomplishing the solution of racial problems. They merely engender discord and race riots."".
- Q6144543 birthDate "1894-08-29".
- Q6144543 birthYear "1894".
- Q6144543 deathDate "1978".
- Q6144543 deathYear "1978".
- Q6144543 thumbnail James_V._Bennett.jpg?width=300.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q1142661.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q1400015.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q1759624.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q2668965.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q30.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q463465.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q4743535.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q6469561.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q6646885.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q7417604.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q8247672.
- Q6144543 wikiPageWikiLink Q9710303.
- Q6144543 dateOfBirth "1894-08-29".
- Q6144543 dateOfDeath "1978".
- Q6144543 name "Bennett, James".
- Q6144543 shortDescription "Prison official".
- Q6144543 type Person.
- Q6144543 type Agent.
- Q6144543 type Person.
- Q6144543 type Agent.
- Q6144543 type NaturalPerson.
- Q6144543 type Thing.
- Q6144543 type Q215627.
- Q6144543 type Q5.
- Q6144543 type Person.
- Q6144543 comment "James Van Benschoten Bennett (born 29 August 1894 in Silver Creek, New York, United States; died 1978) was a leading American penal reformer and prison administrator who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) from 1937 to 1964. He was Assistant Director of the Bureau to Sanford Bates prior to this from 1930-1937. A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War I, he became an Investigator for the U.S.".
- Q6144543 label "James V. Bennett".
- Q6144543 depiction James_V._Bennett.jpg.
- Q6144543 givenName "James".
- Q6144543 name "Bennett, James".
- Q6144543 name "James Bennett".
- Q6144543 surname "Bennett".