The beautiful prison : special issue
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The beautiful prison : special issue
(Studies in law, politics, and society : a research annual / editors Susan S. Silbey, Austin Sarat, v. 64)
Emerald, 2014
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Special issue : the beautiful prison
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 transformation into a socially constructive institution. Long-term prisoner Kenneth E. Hartman engages the reader in his struggle to find beauty inside the increasingly bleak and sterile confines of the California Department of Corrections. Chuck Jackson releases his imagination on Houston's notorious Harris County Jail to envision a jailhouse transformed into a university, community, and arts center. Between the grip of the CDC and utopian vision, Leder, Ginsburg, Pinkert, and Brown report on their practical and theoretical work to understand what the prison has been and might be. The Beautiful Prison suggests that any passage from 'ugly prisons' into institutions serving the greater good will only be possible when the will and intellectual capital of their inhabitants are met by free-world critics ready to challenge assumptions of the prison acting solely as an apparatus of punishment.
Table of Contents
Searching for the beautiful prison.
Introduction.
The enlightened prison.
Knowing that we are making a difference: A case for critical prison programming.
Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison.
Of prisons, gardens, and the way out.
What blooms: The jailhouse, inside out.
Special Issue: The beautiful prison.
List of Contributors.
Studies in law, politics, and society.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
Special Issue: The beautiful prison.
Copyright page.
Searching for the beautiful prison.
Introduction.
The enlightened prison.
Knowing that we are making a difference: A case for critical prison programming.
Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison.
Of prisons, gardens, and the way out.
What blooms: The jailhouse, inside out.
Special Issue: The beautiful prison.
List of Contributors.
Studies in law, politics, and society.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
Special Issue: The beautiful prison.
Copyright page.
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