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Author Bright, Charles, 1943-

Title The powers that punish : prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 / Charles Bright.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1996]
©1996

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Michigan State Prison -- History.
Michigan State Prison.
History.
Michigan State Prison -- History.
Michigan State Prison -- Histoire.
Michigan State Prison.
Prisons -- Michigan -- Jackson -- History.
Prisons.
Michigan -- Jackson.
Corrections -- Political aspects -- Michigan -- History.
Corrections.
Michigan.
Michigan -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bright, Charles, 1943- Powers that punish. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996 9780472107322 (DLC) 96009954 (OCoLC)34243034
ISBN 9780472023110 (electronic book)
047202311X (electronic book)
0472107321 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780472107322 (cloth ; acid-free paper)