The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 /
Bright, Charles, 1943-
The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996. - 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Law, meaning, and violence .
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.
0472107321 (cloth : acidfree paper)
96009954
Michigan State Prison--History.
Prisons--History.--Michigan--Jackson
Corrections--Political aspects--History.--Michigan
Michigan--Politics and government.
HV9475.M52 / M533 1996
365/.9774
The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996. - 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Law, meaning, and violence .
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.
0472107321 (cloth : acidfree paper)
96009954
Michigan State Prison--History.
Prisons--History.--Michigan--Jackson
Corrections--Political aspects--History.--Michigan
Michigan--Politics and government.
HV9475.M52 / M533 1996
365/.9774