The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison by Stephen Cox

Icons of America

The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison

Stephen Cox

256 pages paperback 2009

2 editions

nonfiction medium-paced
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The complex and fascinating history of what it's like "doing time" in the "Big House," and its influence on the American imagination."The Big House" is America's idea of the prison---a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling...

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