Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform

by Joseph F. Spillane

Book Overview

How progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413221
• ISBN13: 9781421413228
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.7"