Rodney K Watterson: 1 book
Whips to Walls
Naval Discipline from Flogging to Progressive Era Reform at Portsmouth Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
During World War I, the United States Navy conducted at the Portsmouth, NH Naval Prison what many penal scholars consider the most ambitious experiment in the history of progressive prison reform. Cell doors remained opened, prisoners governed themselves and thousands of rehabilitated prisoners were...
