Reading Prisoners
Subtitle: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813562674
Subjects: Prisoners, education; Prisoners, united states; Literacy programs; Corrections
Description: "Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries--such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison and New York's Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. With the current rise of mass incarceration in America, Reading Prisoners offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education"--Page [4] of cover.