The powers that punish
Subtitle: prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955
By: Charles Bright.
Series: Law, meaning, and violence
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Michigan State Prison -- History.; Prisons -- Michigan -- Jackson -- History.; Corrections -- Political aspects -- Michigan -- History.; Michigan -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the prison and its political contexts; title: Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson; title: Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform; title: Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952; title: Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology.