TY - BOOK AU - Sarat,Austin TI - Special issue T2 - Studies in law, politics, and society, SN - 9781783509669 (electronic bk.) : AV - HV9471 .B43 2014 U1 - 365.973 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Bingley, U.K. PB - Emerald KW - Social Science KW - Criminology KW - bisacsh KW - Prisons KW - bicssc KW - Law & society KW - Penology & punishment KW - United States KW - Imprisonment N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1059-4337201464 ER -