Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America by Jen Manion

Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America

Jen Manion

296 pages 2015

3 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimi...

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