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Profitable Pens: The Historical Trouble With American Prisons

Rebecca M. McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Rebecca M. McLennan’s synthetic history of the American penal state arrived just before a public debate over … Continue reading

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