Charles Bright: 1 book
The Powers that Punish
Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a...
