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Montana justice : power, punishment, & the penitentiary / Keith Edgerton.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.M92 M664 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edgerton, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montana State Prison--History.
- Montana State Prison.
- Montana State Prison--Finance--History.
- Montana State Prison--Corrupt practices--History.
- Corruption.
- History.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Since the days of the Wild West, Montanans have struggled to be tough on crime with limited resources; this social history of the Montana penitentiary focuses on its early days under a corrupt warden.
- Contents:
- 1 The Majesty of the Law: Vigilantism and Western Prisons 3
- 2 Penitentiary on a Shoestring 19
- 3 "The Accursed Thing": The Territorial Penitentiary 35
- 4 No Warden More Efficient: Frank Conley 69
- 5 Getting Tough on Crime: 1921 to the Present 97.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-173) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295984430
- OCLC:
- 55473553
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