Escaping Prison Myths: The History of Federal Corrections - Softcover

Wonderful book! Must reading for not only criminologists but for people both in the physical and social sciences. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington This history is of tremendous social interest...The authors have told their stories with clarity and enlivened them with anecdotes and contemporary quotations. The book has an accessible style; it is illustrated and presented well. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington * Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health * This book will be of value to policy analysts and correctional administrators as well as sociologists and prison historians...its value is in the demand that it places on the reader and on government to define a mission for federal corrections distinctfrom the states, free of moral trendiness, and sensitive to the expenditure of scarce public resources. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington * Criminal Justice Review * The contributing authors have accurately captured the spirit and style of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. -- W. Hardy Rauch, American Correctional Association The contributing authors have accurately captured the spirit and style of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. -- W. Hardy Rauch, American Correctional Association Wonderful book! Must reading for not only criminologists but for people both in the physical and social sciences. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington This history is of tremendous social interest...The authors have told their stories with clarity and enlivened them with anecdotes and contemporary quotations. The book has an accessible style; it is illustrated and presented well. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington * Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health * This book will be of value to policy analysts and correctional administrators as well as sociologists and prison historians...its value is in the demand that it places on the reader and on government to define a mission for federal corrections distinct from the states, free of moral trendiness, and sensitive to the expenditure of scarce public resources. -- Julius Debro, University of Washington * Criminal Justice Review *

This book describes and analyzes the key issues in the history of federal corrections in the United States: the origins and development of the first federal prisons; the role of women in federal corrections; the evolution of inmate rights; inmate classification and rehabilitation programs; prison administration and executive management; and the famous super-maximum security penitentiaries at Alcatraz and Marion. The book also includes a roundtable discussion of the Bureau of Prison's rehabilitation programs, prisons' viability as vehicles to help their inmates, and the possible benefits of greater community involvement.