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Tucker, Julie N. and Olsson, Barbara Hadley, eds., The American Prison: From the Beginning, a Pictorial History, Lanham, MD, The American Correctional Association, 1983, first edition, oblong 8vo (9" x 11"), HB, navy cloth bds w/ gilt titles, b&w photographic dj w/ black titles, photographic endpapers, VG / VG. Foxing to outer covers. DJ edgeworn, interior foxed, chipping at extremities, rubbed,.
263 pp. Profuses illus. in b/w & color. Traces the history of prisons from the earliest colonial establishments on through the eighties. An unconventional look: the book "depict(s) a part of society that many of us choose to ignore. However, closing our eyes will not make prisons disappear. This book places the present state of corrections in the context of its past, with its mixture of achievements and accepted bitter penalties." [Book ID # 897]
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