Bright, Charles,  1943- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0472107321 (cloth : acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96009954 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Michigan State Prison--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prisons--History.--Michigan--Jackson<br/>Corrections--Political aspects--History.--Michigan
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Michigan--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9475.M52  / M533 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.9774