American prison history

My accounts of American prison history:

• “History of the Prison”
• “Three Waves of American Prison Development, 1790-1920“
• A history of one of America’s most famous prisons, Eastern State Penitentiary (The Deviant Prison)
• A summary of early prison history and historiography intended to supplement David Rothman’s famous book
• A history of attempts to build the “perfect prison” and what lessons we can draw about the limitations of penal reform
• A history of solitary confinement in the US and its reappearance across time (with Keramet Reiter)

For more of my work on prison history, see my penal change page.