The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 /
Bright, Charles,1943-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c1996.
Includes index.
Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology.
BNA
Michigan State Prison
Prisons
Corrections