The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 /

The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bright, Charles, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1996]
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
Subjects:
Michigan State Prison > History.
Prisons > Michigan > Jackson > History.
Corrections > Political aspects > Michigan > History.
Michigan > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.