Unusual Punishment: Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985

by Christopher Murray

Unusual Punishment details the personalities and astonishing events surrounding the collapse of a decades old prison culture and describes how leaders painfully constructed a modern control system.

The Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla was once a place where the warden exercised absolute authority. One word, and a convict could be held for weeks, naked, in an empty dark cell, or sent to the terrifying mental health ward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874223393
• ISBN13: 9780874223392
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"