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. .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781783509669 (electronic bk.) :  £66.95 ; É89.95 ; $114.95 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social Science--Criminology.<br/>Prisons.<br/>Law & society.<br/>Penology & punishment.<br/>Prisons--United States.<br/>Imprisonment--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9471  / .B43 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365.973 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>364-7