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008			130829s2014 mdu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2013032123
020			_a9781421428505
020			_z9781421413235
020			_z9781421413228
035			_a(OCoLC)879202833
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aSpillane, Joseph F., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCoxsackie : _bThe Life and Death of Prison Reform / _cJoseph F. Spillane.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c[2014]
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2014
264		4	_c©[2014]
300			_a1 online resource (312 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aReconfiguring American political history
505	0	0	_gIntroduction: _tThe ashes of reform -- _gPart one. _tThe rapid rise of prison reform in New York, 1929-1944 -- _tThe reformer's mural : the liberal penal imagination -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- _gPart two. _tPrison lives and the world of the reformatory -- _tAdolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- _tAgainst the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- _tReform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- _tA conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- _gPart three. _tThe slow death of prison reform in New York, 1944-1977 -- _tThe frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- _tOut of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- _tFloodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- _gConclusion: _tThe ghost of prisons future.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve "adolescents adrift," Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face--drugs, gangs, and racial conflict. Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which "ungovernable" young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution. Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others. In today's era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal."--Publisher's description.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
610	2	7	_aCoxsackie Correctional Facility. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01924642
610	2	0	_aCoxsackie Correctional Facility.
650		7	_aPrisons. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01077326
650		7	_aPrisoners. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01077103
650		0	_aPrisoners _zNew York (State) _zCoxsackie.
650		0	_aPrisons _zNew York (State) _zCoxsackie.
651		7	_aNew York (State) _zCoxsackie. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01231967
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/30867/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2014 History
945			_aProject MUSE - 2014 Complete
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