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Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (Book Review)
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
by Daniel Burton-Rose
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 14
H. Bruce Franklin,Editor, Penguin, 1998 by Daniel Burton-Rose
Closing a conversation about how hideous and abysmal prisons are these days, the great ex-con sociologist John Irwin remarked to me with a muted note of pleasure which I found somewhat unethical at the time: "Yeah, but one thing, there's going to ...
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