Locked up in America: A History of Detention and Incarceration

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Examines and analyzes the rise of incarceration in the United States, from the colonial period through to the contemporary era, paying attention to the ideas and ideologies shaping the evolution and practices of detention. Major themes include the rise of asylums and poor houses, houses of refuge and juvenile reformatories, adult prisons and convict lease system, slavery and Jim Crow, state mental hospitals, and immigrant detention centers.