Price of Punishment Table of Contents

The Price of Punishment:
Prisons in Massachusetts

WHAT'S INSIDE

1. Introduction

Why We Have Prisons... Who Goes to Prison... Massachusetts' Two Systems of justice

2. Public Program, Private Profit

Where the Money Goes: Salaries... Where the Money Goes: Contracts... The Massachusetts Prisons...

Bridgewater: The State's Largest Prison • Norfolk: The Failure of a Dream • Walpole: The System's Totalitarian Core • Concord: Another Reform That Failed • The Forestry Camps: Hard Labor and Isolation • Framingham: More Staff Than Prisoners • The Parole Department: A Revolving Door

3. Subsidizing the System

Prison Industries: Paying Back the State... Other Prison Jobs... The Company Store... Savings Accounts Medical and Drug Experimentation... Work Release: The Perfect Prison Industry

4. The Human Price of Prisons

Attacking the Family... Doing Time on the Outside Assaults on the Personality... Cripple and Control: Prisons Create Junkies... Every Sentence a Life Sentence

5. Abolition, Not Reform

Why Prisons Cannot Be Reformed... Stop Imprisoning the Poor... Alternatives to Prison... Common Objections to Abolition... Rehabilitating Those Who Run the Prisons... Stopping New Prison Construction... For More Information

written and edited by The Prison Research Project

designed and illustrated by The Media Project

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