The Powers That Punish : : Prison and Politics in the era of the "Big House," 1920-1955
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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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SERIES
Law, meaning, and violence.
PUBLISHED
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
Year Published: 1996
Description: 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0472107321 :
SUBJECTS
Michigan State Prison -- History.
Prisons -- Jackson -- History.
Corrections -- History. -- Michigan
Michigan -- Politics and government.