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A Germ of Goodness - The California State Prison System, 1851-1944 (Hardcover)
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A Germ of Goodness - The California State Prison System, 1851-1944 (Hardcover)
Series: Law in the American West
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For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the
California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with
criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four
prisons into one adult penal system, the prisons at San Quentin and
Folsom were the only places of incarceration for the state's
felons. Bookspan traces the development of a system emphasizing
deterrence and retribution to one receptive to reform and
rehabilitation. "This is the story," writes Bookspan, "of the
penury and personality struggle through which California developed
a prison system to assess, and to address, individual needs while
retaining its custodial institutions. It is a story of the West,
even though eastern penology, with all of its overtones of moral
duty, provided the language for prison reform. In a state where
chaos preceded the assertion of normative rule, fear, not hope,
formed the governing principle of penology. It is a story of
America because true reform on an expanded sense of individual
potential."
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