![]() 350, Mitford supports de-imprisonment, tearing down the walls). Beware of the reformers, she says, for they have a vested interest (like Sol Chaneles in his Open Prison, KR, p. ![]() ![]() ![]() (A fourth one, punishment, has virtually been dropped from the lexicon of the modern prison man, although this is the only objective that prison actually achieves.)"" But mainly what disconcerts is Mitford's total understanding of what is wrong. What is it, then, that gives Mitford's analysis of this terrible situation its gritty pungency - its power to outrage? Contrasting the Oswalds (Lee Harvey and Russell of Attica) helps - the former allegedly killed one, the latter ordered 43 deaths and the bald truth hurts - penologists say that prisons exist for three reasons: ""protection of the public by locking up the lawbreaker, deterrence, and rehabilitation. There is absolutely nothing here which has not been said elsewhere (a scattered elsewhere), as she herself tacitly acknowledges by extensive quotation from penal authorities and critics of all stripes. Jessica Mitford's American Way of Death riled up the funeral industry and now she's going to have the prison people on her hack - in fact already does, due to excerpts from this book which have appeared in The Atlantic and McCall's. ![]()
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