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Special Issue - The Beautiful Prison (Hardcover)
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Special Issue - The Beautiful Prison (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
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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. Long-term prisoner Kenneth E. Hartman engages the
reader in his struggle to find beauty inside the increasingly bleak
and sterile confines of the California Department of Corrections.
Chuck Jackson releases his imagination on Houston's notorious
Harris County Jail to envision a jailhouse transformed into a
university, community, and arts center. Between the grip of the CDC
and utopian vision, Leder, Ginsburg, Pinkert, and Brown report on
their practical and theoretical work to understand what the prison
has been and might be. The Beautiful Prison suggests that any
passage from 'ugly prisons' into institutions serving the greater
good will only be possible when the will and intellectual capital
of their inhabitants are met by free-world critics ready to
challenge assumptions of the prison acting solely as an apparatus
of punishment.
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