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The Connecticut Prison Association and the search for reformatory justice /

How a groundbreaking advocacy organization has helped shape Connecticut's criminal justice system since 1875.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bates, Gordon S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Connecticut Prison Association.
Prisons > Connecticut > History.
Prison administration > Connecticut > History.
Corrections > Connecticut > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Connecticut > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780819576774
0819576778
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: two faces of justice
  • Connecticut's cultural context, 1875
  • From Newgate Prison to Wethersfield State Prison, 1775-1875
  • Rehabilitation rekindled, 1875-1910
  • Continuity and regression, 1910-1933
  • Reform during the Maltbie era, 1933-1960
  • The culmination of progressive reform, 1960-1970
  • Rehabilitation's last hurrah, 1970-1980
  • The return of retributive justice, 1980-1990
  • The legacies of retribution, 1990-2000
  • Epilogue: five critical questions.

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