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

Author: Charles Bright
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Series: Law, meaning, and violence.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Bright
ISBN: 0472107321 9780472107322
OCLC Number: 34243034
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Law, meaning, and violence.
Responsibility: Charles Bright.
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