Special issue. The beautiful prison

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 transformat...

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Other Authors: Sarat, Austin.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
Series: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
Subjects:
Social Science > Criminology.
Prisons.
Law & society.
Penology & punishment.
Prisons > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781783509669 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 96 p.) : ill.

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505 0 |a 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. 
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