The prisons outside and the prisons in our heads: Television and the *representation of incarceration
During the latter part of the twentieth century, the prison population in the United States rose to unprecedented levels. Despite the increasingly powerful impact that the penal system has on U.S. society, prisons and prisoners are virtually invisible in television news. Simultaneously, however, pri...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2004
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3136799 |