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“When a sheriff or a marshal takes a man from a courthouse in a prison van and transports him to confinement for two or three or ten years, this is our act. We have tolled the bell for him. And whether we like it or not, we have made him our collective responsibility. We are free to do something about him; he is not.” -Former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger This challenge is set out in our prison system everyday, as more and more crime is committed. In New York, in 1819, a prison was opened in Auburn that would spawn many prisons built around the same ideas of a maximum-security prison. Attica was opened in 1931, it was the most expensive prison built to date; and according to the builders it was escape proof. However, this would prove to be one of its downfalls resulting in a massive riot that occurred for four days. The prison is still open today and houses some of our most delinquent offenders. The future of the prison is still to be decided but there are some things that are to be discussed as to which direction the officials who decide on policy are concerned. In the nineteen twenties New York’s prison population kept rising, because of the seeming lawlessness of the era. The legislature responded