Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The enduring pains of imprisonment. The roots of imprisonment - The penitentiary - Modern prisons : the twentieth-century experience -- II. Living and working in prison - Mature coping : the challenge of adjustment - Prowling the yard : the public culture of the prison - Living in prison : the private culture of the prison - To have and to hold : the prison officer's public (custodial) agenda - To protect and to serve : the prison officer's private (correctional) agenda -- III. Prison reform - Corrections and coping competence : stress, adaptation, and grassroots prison reform.

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