Spiritual Liberation or Religious Discipline: The Religious Right’s Effects on Incarcerated Women
The history of the prison system in the US is inextricably linked to Christianity. Penitentiary shares its root word, penitence, with repentance. Quakers and Congregationalists started the very first prisons because they viewed the corporal punishment of that time to be cruel (Graber 20). Even today...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2010
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| Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/3 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=scripps_theses |