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The prison reform movement
forlorn hope
By Sullivan, Larry E.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80579-739-8
- Publisher
- Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1990.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1990
This is a short history of penal reform in the United States. The title is derived from a statement by an early 19th-century observer who noted that reformation of offenders within prisons was a "forlorn hope.'' Sullivan's thesis is t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
