Author: State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Annual Report of the Inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
Author: State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Annual Report of the Inspectors
Author: State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Astor LibraryReading Prisoners
Author: Jodi SchorbPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813562686
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shining new light on early American prison literature—from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature—Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the “long” eighteenth century. Looking first at colonial America—an era often said to devalue jailhouse literacy—Jodi Schorb reveals that in fact this era launched the literate prisoner into public prominence. Criminal confessions published between 1700 and 1740, she shows, were crucial “literacy events” that sparked widespread public fascination with the reading habits of the condemned, consistent with the evangelical revivalism that culminated in the first Great Awakening. By century’s end, narratives by condemned criminals helped an audience of new writers navigate the perils and promises of expanded literacy. Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries—such as Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Prison and New York’s Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. She unveils the long and contentious struggle over the value of prisoner education that ultimately led to sporadic efforts to supply prisoners with books and education. Indeed, a new philosophy emerged, one that argued that prisoners were best served by silence and hard labor, not by reading and writing—a stance that a new generation of convict authors vociferously protested. The staggering rise of mass incarceration in America since the 1970s has brought the issue of prisoner rehabilitation once again to the fore. Reading Prisoners offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education.
The Deviant Prison
Author: Ashley T. RubinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced 24-hour solitary confinement for the duration of their sentences. By the close of the Civil War, the majority of prisons in the United States had adopted the Auburn system - the only exception was Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, making it the subject of much criticism and a fascinating outlier. Using the Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison brings to light anxieties and other challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today. Drawing on organizational theory and providing a rich account of prison life, the institution, and key actors, Ashley T. Rubin examines why Eastern's administrators clung to what was increasingly viewed as an outdated and inhuman model of prison - and what their commitment tells us about penal reform in an era when prisons were still new and carefully scrutinized.
Annual Report of the trustees of the Astor Library of the city of New York
Author: Astor LibraryAnnual Report of the Inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
Author: State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Annual Report Of The Inspectors Of The Eastern State Penitentiary Of Pennsylvania
Author: State Penitentiary for the Eastern DiPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020144691
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Annual Report of the Inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania provides a detailed account of life behind bars in one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. The report includes statistical data on the inmate population, as well as descriptions of the physical facilities and the educational and vocational programs offered to prisoners. This report offers a rare glimpse into the workings of a major American prison system in the mid-nineteenth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Author: Massachusetts. General Court. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
The Discovery of the Asylum
Author: David J. RothmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351483641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular ideology in the development of prisons and asylums, Rothman provides a compelling argument that is historically informed and socially instructive. He weaves a comprehensive story that sets forth and portrays a series of interrelated events, influences, and circumstances that are shown to be connected to the development of prisons and asylums. Rothman demonstrates that meaningful historical interpretation must be based upon not one but a series of historical events and circumstances, their connections and ultimate consequences. Thus, the history of prisons and asylums in the youthful United States is revealed to be complex but not so complex that it cannot be disentangled, described, understood, and applied.This reissue of a classic study addresses a core concern of social historians and criminal justice professionals: Why in the early nineteenth century did a single generation of Americans resort for the first time to institutional care for its convicts, mentally ill, juvenile delinquents, orphans, and adult poor? Rothman's compelling analysis links this phenomenon to a desperate effort by democratic society to instill a new social order as it perceived the loosening of family, church, and community bonds. As debate persists on the wisdom and effectiveness of these inherited solutions, The Discovery of the Asylum offers a fascinating reflection on our past as well as a source of inspiration for a new century of students and professionals in criminal justice, corrections, social history, and law enforcement.