Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1: Brokering power behind bars -- Hearing whispers, casting shadows -- Incarcerated innocents -- "Those indolent hardened husseys go on dispensing all rule & order here" -- "Hopelessly hardened" -- Universities of social and political change -- 2: Writing the carceral experience -- Reading prisoners on the scaffold -- Floating prisons -- "The horrors of this far-famed penitentiary" -- Harry Hawser's fate -- "The floor was stained with the blood of a slave."
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