Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Ben Franklin’s World Jen Manion American prisons are overcrowded. The… Read More »Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
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Ben Franklin’s World Jen Manion American prisons are overcrowded. The… Read More »Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Michel Foucault In this important work, Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms… Read More »Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Angela Y. Davis With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical… Read More »Are Prisons Obsolete?
Exploring gaols, bridewells and other forms of detention, 1500-1800 Rachel… Read More »Early Modern Prisons
Dialectical Anthropology Loïc Wacquant December 23, 2010 The carceral boom… Read More »Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony
New Political Science 34.1 Marcelo Hoffman February 14, 2002 Shocked… Read More »Foucault and the “Lesson” of the Prisoner Support Movement
Radical History Review Dylan Rodríguez October 1, 2006 Article about… Read More »(Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death