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Author Edgerton, Keith

Title Montana justice : power, punishment, & the penitentiary / Keith Edgerton
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Majesty of the Law: Vigilantism and Western Prisons -- 2. Penitentiary on a Shoestring -- 3. ""The Accursed Thing"": The Territorial Penitentiary -- 4. No Warden More Efficient: Frank Conley -- 5. Getting Tough on Crime: 1921 to the Present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-173) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Montana State Prison -- History
Montana State Prison -- Finance -- History
Montana State Prison -- Corrupt practices -- History
SUBJECT Montana State Prison fast
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Corruption
Finance
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694660
ISBN 9780295800035
0295800038
9780295984438
0295984430