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- A case study in the failure of nineteenth century penal reform : John Morris and the investigation of 1875
- Creator
- Schaefer, Kurt Kim
- Date
- 1991
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- A history of the Oklahoma penal system, 1907-1967
- Creator
- Conley, John A., 1940-
- Date
- 1977
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- An investigation of the inmate liaison role in the informal communications structure in a maximum security prison psychiatric clinic
- Creator
- Prelesnik, John Walter, 1947-
- Date
- 1972
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Aufruf : gegen die Menschen vernichtenden Haftbedingungen in den deutschen Gefängnissen wir verlangen
- Date
- 1981
- Collection
- Leftist Political Posters Collection
- Description
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Poster shows text in red ink describing prison conditions in West Germany for political prisoners and demanding reform. A red star is in the lower right corner. Border and text are red on a brown background.
- Title
- Corrections in Thailand : a comparative study of corrections in Thailand with selected correctional programs in the United States
- Creator
- Limsong, Somboon
- Date
- 1962
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Crime, punishment, and colonization : a history of the prison of Saint-Louis and the development of the penitentiary system in Senegal, ca. 1830-ca. 1940
- Creator
- Sene, Ibra
- Date
- 2010
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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ABSTRACTMy thesis explores the relationships between the prison of Saint-Louis (Senegal), the development of the penitentiary institution, and colonization in Senegal, between ca. 1830 and ca. 1940. Beyond the institutional frame, I focus on how the colonial society influenced the implementation of, and the mission assigned to, imprisonment. Conversely, I explore the extent to which the situation in the prison impacted the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized populations....
Show moreABSTRACTMy thesis explores the relationships between the prison of Saint-Louis (Senegal), the development of the penitentiary institution, and colonization in Senegal, between ca. 1830 and ca. 1940. Beyond the institutional frame, I focus on how the colonial society influenced the implementation of, and the mission assigned to, imprisonment. Conversely, I explore the extent to which the situation in the prison impacted the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized populations. First, I look at the evolution of the Prison of Saint-Louis by focusing on the preoccupations of the colonial authorities and the legislation that helped implement the establishment and organize its operation. I examine the facilities in comparison with the other prisons in the colony. Second, I analyze the internal operation of the prison in relation to the French colonial agenda and policies. Third and lastly, I focus on the `prison society'. I look at the contentions, negotiations and accommodations that occurred within the carceral space, between the colonizer and the colonized people. I show that imprisonment played an important role in French colonization in Senegal, and that the prison of Saint-Louis was not just a model for, but also the nodal center of, the development of the penitentiary. Colonial imprisonment was not meant to be a true replica of that in metropolitan France. Therefore, Saint-Louis received people who were just charged, those sentenced, vagrants, and even people in transit who never committed any crimes. The driving forces of the system were the need for control over a poorly understood sociopolitical order, and for cheap labor force, that went hand in hand with French territorial expansion. The absence of a clear penitentiary theory, of basic technical expertise in prison management, and of sufficient financial resources, distorted the system and created space for a prison subculture never really understood by the French, and which had a serious impact on the penitentiary.I collected archival sources in Senegal (Dakar and Saint-Louis) and France (Aix-en-Provence). I root the study in the historiography of African colonization, and imprisonment in other colonial settings. I am inspired by the Subaltern Studies and am using theories developed by Michel Foucault, David Rothman and the literature on punishment they inspired. I borrow from James Scott's concepts of the "weapons of the weak" and "infrapolitics of subordinate groups" to analyze African agency in the prison space.The crisis in the prison system in many African countries, the political use of imprisonment, and the increasing development of "private" methods of policing and punishment due to the growing lack of trust by large components of African civil societies in the formal legal systems, are mostly informed by the colonial legacy. I argue that understanding these trends and their antecedents through historical inquiry is critical in the current process of building more democratic and socially just societies in Africa. Imprisonment is an institution through the history of which we gain a fresh view on the logics, the actors, and the outcome of French colonialism. My research sheds new light on a critical part of the history of Senegal and West Africa, but also opens up new research directions for a better understanding of the philosophy and politics of punishment and their implications for the rule of law in our societies in the postcolonial era.
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- Referrals to a prison psychiatric clinic
- Creator
- Welch, Carl Henry
- Date
- 1960
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Social bases of power in a maximum-security prison : a study of the erosion of traditional authority
- Creator
- Stojkovic, Stan
- Date
- 1984
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- Specters of freedom : forced labor, social struggle, and the Louisiana State Penitentiary system, 1835-1935
- Creator
- Hermann, Christina Pruett
- Date
- 2015
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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This dissertation examines the history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary from its founding in 1835 to 1935. Its purpose is to reveal the deep historical forces underlying the state’s present-day distinction for incarceration with rates twice the U.S. national average. In doing so, it contributes to the history of punishment, the history of race and slavery, labor history, Southern history, and histories of the state. It adopts an Atlantic perspective and a longue durein order to preserve...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary from its founding in 1835 to 1935. Its purpose is to reveal the deep historical forces underlying the state’s present-day distinction for incarceration with rates twice the U.S. national average. In doing so, it contributes to the history of punishment, the history of race and slavery, labor history, Southern history, and histories of the state. It adopts an Atlantic perspective and a longue durein order to preserve the singularity of the penitentiary’s development without isolating the institution from its larger transnational context. This investigation challenges the conventional wisdom that all southern penitentiaries were the preserve of white men and repudiates the use of regional exceptionalism or “backwardness” to explain either the presence or absence of penal reform. It draws on official reports, government documents, newspapers, publications by penal reformers and labor organizations, prisoner narratives, and the Louisiana State Penitentiary Prisoner Database (LSPPD), my own database created from information drawn from the records of nearly 10,000 inmates. Quantitative analysis combined with qualitative sources offer unique insight into life and labor inside the penitentiary. This study demonstrates that convict servitude was a specific species of forced labor, an institution that was historically and structurally distinct from chattel slavery, yet, coexistent with other forms of forced labor in the Atlantic system. My vantage problematizes the literal and figurative use of slavery as a term to depict penal labor and confinement in the penitentiary system during its first one hundred years. I argue that the state of Louisiana, an early leader in the nineteenth century penitentiary movement, established a rationalized, “modern,” and state-of-the-art penitentiary by 1835. It instituted a distinctive system of forced labor, which generated a nascent prison industrial complex and supported the slave system in the name of humanitarian reform and civilizational progress. This enduring system powered the Confederacy and Union forces. It survived the Civil War to prop up the New South by providing a cheap captive labor force, which advanced state-building, planter power, and infrastructural development. Yet, the institution was not a functional equivalent to the institution of slavery. A constituent part of the Mississippi Delta’s “alluvial empire,” Louisiana’s penitentiary system was an agent in the making of Jim Crow by 1901 and acted to more closely link associations of blackness and criminality. Penitentiary enterprise and the state’s convict population continued to expand and consolidate under ‘progressive,’ scientific management during the first quarter of the twentieth century. The shift from convict leasing to direct state management of the penitentiary in 1901 led to an even more entrenched, rationalized, and extensive prison industrial complex and system of forced labor but one that was all the more vulnerable to its own contradictions. This specter of freedom, institutionalized in the penitentiary system, carried within itself a hidden history of resistance, one that signified the depth of working people’s enduring struggle to live and labor on their own terms.
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- The impact and after-effects of war on a state prison system
- Creator
- Fox, Vernon Brittain, 1916-
- Date
- 1949
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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- The impact of institutional milieu on inmate self-concept in a custody and a treatment oriented county jail
- Creator
- Daffner, David Alan
- Date
- 1978
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations