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The big house : image and reality of the American prison
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The big house : image and reality of the American prison / Stephen Cox.
ISBN
9780300124194 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
ix, 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2009
Series
Icons of america
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Touring the institution
How to build a big house
Your life as a convict
The art of humiliation
Sex
You built it, now try to run it
A tale of two prisons
Rajahs and reformers
Prisons you can't tear down.
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