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Author Bates, Gordon S., author.

Title The Connecticut Prison Association and the search for reformatory justice / Gordon S. Bates.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Driftless Connecticut series
Driftless Connecticut series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: two faces of justice -- Connecticut's cultural context, 1875 -- From Newgate Prison to Wethersfield State Prison, 1775-1875 -- Rehabilitation rekindled, 1875-1910 -- Continuity and regression, 1910-1933 -- Reform during the Maltbie era, 1933-1960 -- The culmination of progressive reform, 1960-1970 -- Rehabilitation's last hurrah, 1970-1980 -- The return of retributive justice, 1980-1990 -- The legacies of retribution, 1990-2000 -- Epilogue: five critical questions.
Summary How a groundbreaking advocacy organization has helped shape Connecticut's criminal justice system since 1875.
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Subject Connecticut Prison Association.
Connecticut Prison Association.
Prisons -- Connecticut -- History.
Prisons.
Connecticut.
History.
Prison administration -- Connecticut -- History.
Prison administration.
Corrections -- Connecticut -- History.
Corrections.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Connecticut -- History.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bates, Gordon S. Connecticut Prison Association and the search for reformatory justice. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017] 9780819576767 (DLC) 2016023302
ISBN 9780819576774 (electronic book)
0819576778 (electronic book)
9780819576767 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
081957676X (cloth ; alkaline paper)