The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 by Rebecca McLennan

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941

Rebecca McLennan

505 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and you...

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