LEADER 02963nam 2200325z- 450 001 9910583575903321 005 20231214133026.0 010 $a1-4214-2850-4 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023645 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88801 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023645 100 $a20202207d2014 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCoxsackie$eThe Life and Death of Prison Reform 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2014 215 $a1 electronic resource (312 p.) 330 $aHow progressive good intentions failed at Coxsackie, once a model New York State prison for youth offenders.Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve ?adolescents adrift,? Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison?s mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face?drugs, gangs, and racial conflict.Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which ?ungovernable? young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution.Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others.In today?s era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America?s prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal. 517 $aCoxsackie 606 $aHistory of the Americas$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of the Americas 615 7$aHistory of the Americas 700 $aSpillane$b Joseph F$4auth$01167500 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583575903321 996 $aCoxsackie$92719566 997 $aUNINA