Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons

by Zara Stone and Zara Stone

Book Overview

Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the U.K willingly went under the knife, their tab picked up by the government.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633886727
• ISBN13: 9781633886728
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"