Special Issue: The Beautiful Prison

by Austin Sarat

In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution. Long-term prisoner Kenneth E. Hartman engages the reader in his struggle to find beauty inside the increasingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783509678
• ISBN13: 9781783509676
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"