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Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater : a troubled past / Michael J. Maddigan.
Van Pelt Library HV8742.U52 M33 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maddigan, Michael J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater.
- History.
- Historic buildings.
- Correctional institutions.
- Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts--Bridgewater.
- Bridgewater (Mass.)--History, Local.
- Bridgewater (Mass.).
- Prisons--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Correctional institutions--Massachusetts--Bridgewater--History.
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Bridgewater.
- Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater--History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Massachusetts.
- Prisons--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Genre:
- Local history.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "A partial if not an entire failure": Bridgewater State Almshouse, 1854-66
- "The name of workhouse was no misnomer": Bridgewater State Almshouse and Workhouse for vicious paupers, 1866-72
- "To reform, restrain and mitigate": Bridgewater State Workhouse, 1972-86
- "No special treatment is given": Bridgewater State Farm as charitable institution, 1886-1919
- "A conglomerate of insane and defectives and drunks": Bridgewater State Farm as prison, 1919-55
- "A hospital or a stable": Massachusetts Correctional Institutions -Bridgewater, 1955-87
- "Recoil, reform, repeat": Massachusetts correctional complex Bridgewater, 1987-2017
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781467139137
- 1467139130
- OCLC:
- 1007839460
- Publisher Number:
- 99979060649
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