With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America - Hardcover

Christianson, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555533647 ISBN 13: 9781555533649

Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Traces the history of prisons in American society from Columbus' voyages to the New World to the present

About this title

From the Publisher:

From Columbus's voyages to the New World through today's prison movements, captivity has played an important, yet disconcerting role in American history. In this sweeping reexamination of imprisonment in the United States, Scott Christianson exposes the hidden record of the nation's prison heritage and explores some of the forces underlying the paradox of a country that sanctifies individual liberty even as it continues to build and maintain a huge and growing complex of totalitarian institutions in its midst.

About the Author:

Scott Christianson is Director of the New York Death Penalty Documentation Project, contributing editor of the Criminal Law Bulletin, and Chairman of the Board of the Safer Society Foundation. A former investigative reporter and state criminal justice official, he is the author of Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House. He lives near Albany, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1555533647
• ISBN 13: 9781555533649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394