The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright.
Series: Law, meaning, and violencePublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.Description: 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0472107321 (cloth : acidfree paper)
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- HV9475.M52 M533 1996
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Includes index.
Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology.
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