When the prisoners ran Walpole : a true story in the movement for prison abolition
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- When the prisoners ran Walpole : a true story in the movement for prison abolition
- Jaar:
- 2008
- Onderwerp:
- Prisoners
Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole History
Labor unions - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2008
- Plaatsnummer:
- ANARC (Anarchief Gent)
- ISBN:
- 9780896087705
0896087700 - Paginering:
- X, 258 p. ; 23 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- Introduction -- Preamble: constructing punishment in Massachusetts -- Confronting the moral dilemma of Massachusetts prisons: Francis Sargent and his administration -- The new commissioner: from corrections to abolition -- The beginning: constructing corrections in Massachusetts -- Resistance, rebellion, and declaration: creating a culture of resistance -- Dynamic and determined: the National Prisoners Reform Association--Walpole chapter -- The struggle for voice and sovereignty: the NPRA negotiates power -- Stealing time: the NPRA takes over -- Soul contraband: observers witness terror and change -- Readjustment and resistance: the state police takeback -- The struggle for existence: death knell for reform? -- Those who dared: the promise of abolition.
- Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/cgw01:000878257
