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Fire in the Big House : America's deadliest prison disaster /
Published 2019Call Number:Located:Online Book -
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Hard labor and hard time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs /
Published 2012Subjects:Call Number:Located:Online Book -
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Alcatraz-- the history of an island prison : from the development to an American myth /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by John Holian -- Mythical Alcatraz -- Discovery : twenty-two acres of barren rock -- The United States Army takes over -- The transition from post to prison -- A new type of prison for a new age -- The heart of the myth : a statistical analysis of the inmates -- Colorful inmates -- Life on the island for two different populations -- Escape from Alcatraz -- The end of an era -- Native American takeover -- Alcatraz today.…”
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Isolation : places and practices of exclusion /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay / Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange -- Punitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities -- The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process' / John Pratt -- The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands / Clare Anderson -- Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space / Ethan Blue -- Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States / Elise Chenier -- Therapeutic and preventive isolation -- The ruly and the unruly: isolation and inclusion in the management of the insane / Mark Finnane -- From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan / Susan L. …”
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