Name: Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary (en Inglés)
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Author: Keith Edgerton
ISBN: 9780295984438

portada Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Washington Press

Autor

Keith Edgerton

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0295984430

ISBN13

9780295984438

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Historia local

Montana Justice: Power, Punishment, and the Penitentiary (en Inglés)

Keith Edgerton (Autor) · University Of Washington Press · Tapa Blanda

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Since the days of the wild West, Montanans have struggled to be "tough on crime" with limited resources. During Montana's early territorial years, "criminal justice" was almost nonexistent: a few towns had inadequate and chronically overcrowded jails; occasional prisoners were sent east to the federal penitentiary in Detroit; and vigilantes summarily dealt with others suspected of crimes. In 1871, the federal government funded a penitentiary in Deer Lodge that was turned over to Montana when it achieved statehood in 1889. In this absorbing book, Keith Edgerton provides a social history of the Montana Penitentiary, with a primary focus on its early, formative years. After statehood, Montana leased its penitentiary to contractors, who utilized cheap inmate labor to turn a profit for themselves and for the state. Warden Frank Conley became a regional political boss and amassed a personal fortune, using inmates for road construction and a variety of public and private projects. Eventually, charges of corruption led to his ouster by Governor Joseph M. Dixon and sparked a trial and heated controversy that resulted in Dixon's political downfall. After 1921 the prison system came under full control of the state government. Although there were changes at the penitentiary during the rest of the twentieth century--and two full-scale riots in the 1950s--there was also a depressing repetition of corruption, neglect, and underfunding.