Big House.

"The Big House" is America's idea of the prison-­a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison-its politics, its sex, its violence, its...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Yale University Press 2009.
Series:	Icons of America.
Subjects:	Prisoners > United States. Prisons > United States. Prisoners. Prisons. United States.