Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary, for the Two Years Ending September 30, 1878
Title | Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary, for the Two Years Ending September 30, 1878 PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Prisons |
ISBN |
Report of the Commissioners
Title | Report of the Commissioners PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 1878 |
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Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary, for the Two Years Ending ...
Title | Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary, for the Two Years Ending ... PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Prisons |
ISBN |
Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois
Title | Reports Made to the General Assembly of Illinois PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois. General Assembly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 980 |
Release | 1879 |
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Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet
Title | Report of the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1892 |
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Title | Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | State Library of Massachusetts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Capital and Convict
Title | Capital and Convict PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Kamerling |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813940567 |
Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South’s post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nation’s imagination that it has come to represent one of the region’s hallmark differences from the North. The regions are different, the argument goes, because they punish differently. Capital and Convict challenges this assumption by offering a comparative study of Illinois’s and South Carolina’s formal state penal systems in the fifty years after the Civil War. Henry Kamerling argues that although punishment was racially inflected both during Reconstruction and after, shared, nonracial factors defined both states' penal systems throughout this period. The similarities in the lived experiences of inmates in both states suggest that the popular focus on the racial characteristics of southern punishment has shielded us from an examination of important underlying factors that prove just as central—if not more so—in shaping the realities of crime and punishment throughout the United States.