Nathan Kantrowitz research papers on Stateville penitentiary, 1957-1996.

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Nathan Kantrowitz research papers on Stateville penitentiary, 1957-1996.

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Research notes and reports by sociologist Nathan Kantrowitz, some written while an employee at Stateville, and by other persons (primarily 1957-1963); copies of published materials about Stateville penitentiary and Warden Joseph E. Ragen; unpublished drafts of Kantrowitz's writings about Stateville; and other materials collected by Kantrowitz and used in preparation of his book, Close control: Managing a maximum security prison: the story of Warden Ragen's Stateville Penitentiary (1996). Topics include official and informal rewards and penalties, linguistics and prison slang terms, administration of the corrections staff and the prisoners.

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Mr. Kantrowitz is the author of Close Control: Managing a Maximum Security Prison, the story of Warden Ragen's Stateville Penitentiary (1996). From the description of Nathan Kantrowitz research papers on Stateville penitentiary, 1957-1996. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713915443 ...

Ragen, Joseph Edward, 1897-1971

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