Special issue. The beautiful prison

• Other Authors: Sarat, Austin
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
• Subjects: Social Science > Criminology.; Prisons.; Law & society.; Penology & punishment.; Prisons > United States.; Imprisonment > United States.

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 transformat...