1st Edition

The American Prison Business

By Jessica Mitford Copyright 1974
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business. From the first demonstration that the penitentiary is an American invention that was initiated by the late eighteenth-century reformers, to the startling revelations, in the chapter called ‘Cheaper than Chimpanzees’ of how pharmaceutical... Read more

Acknowledgements 1. The Keepers and the Kept 2. Women in Cages 3. 101 Years of Prison Reform 4. The Criminal Type 5. What Counts as Crime? 6. The Indeterminate Sentence 7. Treatment 8. Clockwork Orange 9. Cheaper than Chimpanzees 10. The Prison Business 11. Employment and Welfare 12. Parole 13. Prison Protest 14. The Lawlessness of Corrections 15. Reform or Abolition? Notes Index

Biography

Jessica Mitford