Coxsackie : the life and death of prison reform / Joseph F. Spillane.

How progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders.Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at...

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Main Author: Spillane, Joseph F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
Series:Reconfiguring American political history.
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