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04550aam a2200517 i 4500 001 9085DC0AF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 230814s2024 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023036597 020 $a 1478025875 020 $a 9781478025870 020 $a 1478030135 020 $a 9781478030133 035 $a (OCoLC)1393206461 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d JAS $d OCLCO $d NDD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Hillyer, Reiko, $d 1969- $e author. 245 12 $a A wall is just a wall : $b the permeability of the prison in the twentieth-century United States / $c Reiko Hillyer. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a xiv, 354 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-334) and index. 505 0 $a Clemency in the age of Jim Crow -- Freedom struggles : clemency hangs in the balance in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement -- The house of the dying : the decline of clemency under the new Jim Crow -- Southern hospitality : the rise of conjugal visits -- The national reach of conjugal visits -- "Daddy is in prison" : the decline of conjugal visits and the strange career of family values -- "To rub elbows with freedom" : temporary release in the Jim Crow South -- Conquering prison walls : furloughs at the crossroads of the rehabilitative idea -- Willie Horton and moral panic. 520 $a "A Wall is Just a Wall examines the connections between incarcerated people and those outside of prisons in the United States since the conclusion of World War II. Reiko Hillyer shows how these connections decreased in the latter half of the twentieth century and incarcerated people became increasingly cut off from the free world. Beginning with an examination of the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola and its Travelling Ambassadors program, which allowed inmates to travel throughout the state for speaking engagements, Hillyer notes that, until the late 1970s, even lifetime sentences to prison were understood as temporary. Louisiana State prisoners with life sentences were routinely let out after 10 years and 6 months, while the federal system defined a life sentence as 15 years. Thus, interaction between inmates and free populations encouraged inmates' eventual reintegration into outside society. By the 1990s, state and national legislation restricted outside visits and lengthened sentences, further separating incarcerated populations from free populations and limiting the ability of prisoners to fashion constructive social identities. Each of the book's three sections focuses on a single policy that allows for connections between inmates and free citizens: gubernatorial clemency and pardons, conjugal and family visits, and temporary furloughs. A Wall is Just a Wall demonstrates that the current impermeability of the prison is neither natural nor inevitable, but rather a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Louisiana State Penitentiary. 650 0 $a Prison administration $z United States. 650 0 $a Prisoners $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Prisoners $x Civil rights $z United States. 650 0 $a Prisoners $x Family relationships $z United States. 650 0 $a Conjugal visits $z United States. 650 0 $a Clemency $z United States. 650 6 $a Prisons $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $x Administration $0 (CaQQLa)201-0011177 $z EÌtats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 6 $a Prisonniers $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377410 $z EÌtats-Unis $0 (CaQQLa)201-0084944 $x Conditions sociales. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377410 650 6 $a Prisonniers $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $x Droits $0 (CaQQLa)201-0156679 $z EÌtats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 6 $a Prisonniers $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $x Relations familiales $0 (CaQQLa)201-0028851 $z EÌtats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 6 $a Visites conjugales $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $z EÌtats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 6 $a CleÌmence $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $z EÌtats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hillyer, Reiko, 1969- $t Wall is just a wall. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 $z 9781478025887 $w (DLC) 2023036598 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010717.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9085DC0AF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search