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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505 0 |a The reformer's mural -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion : the ghost of prisons future. 
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