The Crisis of Imprisonment : Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Hardcover)

Introduction: the grounds of legal punishment; 1. Strains of servitude: legal punishment in the early republic; 2. Due convictions: contractual penal servitude and its discontents; 3. Commerce upon the throne: the business of imprisonment in Gilded Age America; 4. Disciplining the state, civilizing the market: the abolition of contract prison labor; 5. A model servitude: prison reform in the early progressive era; 6. Uses of the state: dialectics of reform in early progressive New York; 7. American Bastille: Sing Sing and the political crisis of imprisonment; 8. Changing the subject: the metamorphosis of prison reform in the high progressive era; 9. Laboratory of social justice: the new penologists at Sing Sing; 10. Punishment without labor: towards the modern penal state; Conclusion: on the crises of imprisonment.