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The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bright, Charles, 1943-
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections--Political aspects--Michigan--History.
- Corrections.
- Prisons--Michigan--Jackson--History.
- Prisons.
- Michigan--Politics and government.
- Michigan.
- Michigan State Prison--History.
- Michigan State Prison.
- Physical Description:
- 326 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the nature of punishment in a twentieth-century penitentiary.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-60463-5
- 9786612604638
- 0-472-02311-X
- OCLC:
- 642206229
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