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 | The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society (Updated Edition) by Norval Morris (Editor), David J. Rothman (Editor) Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-19-511814-6 / 0195118146 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511814-8 / 9780195118148 The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution stret | |