The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
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The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913
About this book
Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced 24-hour solitary confinement for the duration of their sentences. By the close of the Civil War, the majority of prisons in the United States had adopted the Auburn system - the only exception was Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, making it the subject of much criticism anda fascinating outlier. Using the Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prisonbrings to light anxieties and other challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today. Drawing on organizational theory and providing a rich account of prison life, the institution, and key actors, Ashley T. Rubin examineswhy Eastern's administrators clung to what was increasingly viewed as an outdated and inhuman model of prison - and what theircommitmenttells us about penal reform in an era when prisons were still new and carefully scrutinized.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Dedication
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- A Brief Timeline
- Important Actors
- Introduction
- Part I Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing the Conditions for Personal Institutionalization
- Part II The Advantage of Difference: The Process of Institutionalization
- Part III Forced to Adapt: The Conditions for and Process of Deinstitutionalization
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Inspectors
- Index