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The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement

Eric Cummins
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The article was published on 1994-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 84 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison.

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Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment

Ben Crewe
- 21 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: The "pains of imprisonment" have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology and as discussed by the authors revisited the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new burdens and frust...
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Marie Gottschalk
TL;DR: The early origins of the carceral state, 1920s-60s, 1970s-1990s, and the power to punish: the political development of capital punishment, 1972 to today as mentioned in this paper.
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Toward an Anthropology of Prisons

Lorna A. Rhodes
- 01 Oct 2001 - 
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the history, sociology, and anthropology of the prison, as well as some recent popular critiques of the current situation and suggested areas in which an anthropology of prisons might take up questions of modernity, subjection, classification, social suffering, and ethnographic possibility in the context of an increasingly politicized and racialized system of incarceration.
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Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California

Candace Kruttschnitt, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history, focusing on the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners.
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Mass Incarceration and the Paradox of Prison Conditions Litigation

Heather Schoenfeld
- 01 Sep 2010 - 
TL;DR: This paper examined how prison conditions litigation in the 1970s, as an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, inadvertently contributed to the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and found that successful court challenges for institutional change can have long-term outcomes that are contrary to social justice goals.