| Description |
1 online resource (x, 96 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in law, politics, and society,
1059-4337 ;
v. 64
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Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
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| Note |
Special issue. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Doran Larson -- Searching for the beautiful prison / Kenneth Hartman -- The enlightened prison / Drew Leder -- Knowing that we are making a difference : a case for critical prison programming / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison / Anke Pinkert -- Of prisons, gardens, and the way out / Michelle Brown -- What blooms: the jailhouse, inside out / Chuck Jackson. |
| Summary |
In The beautiful prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisons -- United States.
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Prisons. |
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United States. |
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Imprisonment -- United States.
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Imprisonment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sarat, Austin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781783509676 |
| ISBN |
9781783509669 (electronic book) |
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178350966X (electronic book) |
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