Special Issue : the beautiful prison
Title:
Special Issue : the beautiful prison
Author:
Sarat, Austin, editor.
ISBN:
9781784415679
9781306876032
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 96 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Studies in law, politics, and society, volume 64
Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
Contents:
Introduction / Searching for the beautiful prison / The enlightened prison / Knowing that we are making a difference : a case for critical prison programming / Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison / Of prisons, gardens, and the way out / What blooms: the jailhouse, inside out
Abstract:
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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