The Deviant Prison : Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913

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Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.