| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary. By Keith Edgerton. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xviii + 181 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50, paper.)

In this engaging but short book, Keith Edgerton focuses on the history of Montana's territorial (and later state) penitentiary from the 1870s to the present. The bulk of the work traces the penitentiary's institutionalization to 1920, with a short chapter covering the period since 1921. Of particular interest is the examination of how the management of the penitentiary fell to private contractors in the early-twentieth century. For example, Edgerton devotes one chapter to Frank Conley, who rose from prison guard to warden, until scandal ended his tenure in 1921. As Edgerton details, this contract brought Conley considerable wealth, political power, and influence during his tenure—gains made possible by minimal oversight from the state legislature.

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