Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
Jessica Mitford
An expose of the American penal systems that points out its unnecessary cruelties and injustices.
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- Vintage
- Year
- 1973
- ISBN-13
- 9780394710938
- Genre
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Topics
- Prison systemCriminal justice reformInstitutional cruelty
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1974)
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