The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the "big House," 1920-1955 by Charles Bright

The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the "big House," 1920-1955

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Charles Bright

326 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history...

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