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The Missouri State Penitentiary : 170 Years inside "The Walls" /

Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, "It's older and meaner." For 168 years, it was everything other prisons were and more. In The Missouri State Penitentiary, Jamie Pamela Rasmussen recounts t...

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Autor principal: Rasmussen, Jamie Pamela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Missouri Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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