A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States

by Reiko Hillyer

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised; and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media--in contrast to corrections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478025875
• ISBN13: 9781478025870
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"