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Disruptive prisoners : resistance, reform, and the new deal / Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn ; foreword by Robert Gaucher.

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"Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada's federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography - one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians. This social history relies on extensive archival research a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Authors: Clarkson, Christopher Allan, 1969- (Author), Munn, Melissa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Prisons > Canada > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Canada > History > 20th century.
Prison reform > Canada > History > 20th century.
Prison reform.
Prisoners.
Prisons.
Canada.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART I Disrupting the Old Order
  • 1 Riots and Reform: Political Action and the Making of the Archambault Report
  • 2 The Blueprint for the New Deal: The Archambault Commission Re-envisions Reform
  • PART II Disruptive Influences
  • 3 "Men Who Beefed": Writing the New Deal
  • 4 The New Deal - Same as the Old Deal?
  • 5 Time Off: Clemency, Remission, and Parole
  • 6 New Deal/Old Deal: Discontent and Censorship
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A Excerpts from Commissioner's Annual Reports Detailing Psychiatric Services, 1947-1957
  • Appendix B Article Refused for Publication in Pathfinder, 1953
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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