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The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
By Stephen Cox
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By Stephen Cox
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The complex and fascinating history of what it’s like “doing time” in the “Big House,” and its influence on the American imagination.
“The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealization in American popular culture....