Special issue. The beautiful prison [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat.
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TextSeries: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.Publication details: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 96 p.) : illISBN: 9781783509669 (electronic bk.) :Subject(s): Social Science -- Criminology | Prisons | Law & society | Penology & punishment | Prisons -- United States | Imprisonment -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 365.973 LOC classification: HV9471 | .B43 2014Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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