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Book Review


Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, & the Penitentiary. By Keith Edgerton. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xviii, 200 pp. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-295-98443-0.)
The history of each state's prison system is a mixture of unique and shared experiences. The classic works on the development and use of the penitentiary in the United States (David Rothman, The Discovery of Asylum, 1971; Elmer Barnes, The Evolution of Penology in Pennsylvania, 1927; Mark Colvin, Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs, 1997; David Garland, Punishment and Modern Society, 1990; Alexander Pisciotta, Benevolent Repression, 1994) are reinforcing in their descriptions of the contributions of the Jacksonian and Progressive/reform eras to punishment philosophy, architecture, and the routines of institutional life. However, it is through the more personal drama of the individual state system that we really experience the color and culture of the lives that made up early prison history in America. . . .
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