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摘要: America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers periods deep instability, popular protest, crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details debates surrounding prison reform, including limits state power, influence market forces, role unfree labor, 'just deserts' wrongdoers. also explores existed between War 1812 Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses rehabilitation model primarily in twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from archives, shows how, each three distinct crisis, dissent culminated dismantling old systems imprisonment.