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Special issue. The beautiful prison [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat. - Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014. - 1 online resource (x, 96 p.) : ill. - Studies in law, politics, and society, v. 64 1059-4337 ; . - Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64. .

Includes index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781783509669 (electronic bk.) : £66.95 ; É89.95 ; $114.95

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Science--Criminology.
Prisons.
Law & society.
Penology & punishment.
Prisons--United States.
Imprisonment--United States.

LC Class. No.: HV9471 / .B43 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 365.973

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 364-7