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Prison reform / editor, Aaron Gulyas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aaron Gulyas
- Series:
- Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
- Defining documents in American history ; Volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Prisons--United States--History--Sources.
- Prisons.
- Imprisonment--United States--History--Sources.
- Imprisonment.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History--Sources.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (xiii, 435 pages)) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- Discusses the fierce debates and legislation related to prison reform, the privatization of prisons, the efforts to end practices like solitary confinement, and the improvement of mental health care in prisons.
- Contents:
- Publisher's Note
- Editor's Introduction
- Contributors
- "Prisons" without Wardens, Walls, or Cells
- The Transportation Act of 1717
- Felons and Rattlesnakes
- Letters from America, Letter VI
- Founding Vision for Georgia
- A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia, Settlers' Grievances
- Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV
- On Billy the Kid
- Jesse James in His Own Defense
- Shootout at the O.K. Corral
- Antebellum Prisons and Prison Reform
- A Visit to the Philadelphia Prison
- Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Massachusetts State-Prison
- State Prisons and the Penitentiary System Vindicated
- Prison Discipline: The Auburn and Pennsylvania Systems Compared
- On the Penitentiary System in the United States
- First and Twenty-Seventh Annual Reports of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston
- Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts
- A Letter from New York
- Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States
- Prisons & Prison Reform in the Late Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
- The Criminal Insane in the United States and Other Countries
- Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Sketch of the Life and Work of Linda Gilbert
- The Jail as a Perverter of Womanhood
- Declaration of Principles, National Prison Congress
- The Individual Method of Dealing with Girls and Women Awaiting Court Action
- Wall Shadows: A Study in American Prisons
- Within Prison Walls
- Practical Efforts at Character Building for Jail Prisoners
- Fifty Years of Prison Service
- The School Idea in Prisons for Adults
- Attica Manifesto and Declaration to the People of America.
- In Prison
- Report of the Attorney General on the February 2 and 3, 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico
- Ruiz v. Estelle
- Prison and Prison Reforms in the 1990s and Twenty-first Century
- Madrid v. Gomez
- Supermax Prisons: Overview and General Considerations
- Lessons from the States: Responsible Prison Reform
- Announcement of Second Chance Pell Pilot Program
- U.S. Department of Justice Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing
- Department of Justice Letter on the FIRST STEP Act
- Wartime Incarceration and Punishment
- Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora
- Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
- Habeas Corpus Suspension Act
- Narrative of Privations and Sufferings
- Nineteen Months a Prisoner of War
- Narrative of Prison Life
- German Enemy of U.S. Hanged by Mob
- "Japanese on the West Coast"
- Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien Enemies-Germans
- Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien Enemies-Italians
- Executive Order 9066: Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
- To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
- An Interview with an Older Nisei
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- Executive Summary of the Fay Report
- Race, Ethnicity, and Imprisonment
- Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre
- Life Among the Paiutes, Trouble on the Paiute Reservation
- The Indian Policy in Its Relations to Crime and Pauperism
- The Convict Lease System
- The New Slavery in the South
- The Repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans
- Southern Legislators Protest Proposed Anti-lynching Legislation
- Appendixes
- Chronology
- Web Resources
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781642650396
- 1642650390
- OCLC:
- 1102635452
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