description: Is rehabilitation dead in American corrections? This socio-political analysis of the fifty-year history of Patuxent Institution, a treatment-oriented maximum security prison in Maryland, studies the organizational challenges faced by this unique American prison, and the social and political forces that work to ensure its survival.
language: English
title: Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections
titlecomplete: Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections (Studies in Crime and Punishment)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers