Bibliograph

Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, a troubled past, Michael J. Maddigan

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater, a troubled past, Michael J. Maddigan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-168) and index

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illustrationsmapsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1007839460

Responsibility statement

Michael J. Maddigan

Sub title

a troubled past

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- "A partial if not an entire failure": Bridgewater State Almshouse, 1854-66 -- "The name of workhouse was no misnomer": Bridgewater State Almshouse and Workhouse for vicious paupers, 1866-72 -- "To reform, restrain and mitigate": Bridgewater State Workhouse, 1972-86 -- "No special treatment is given": Bridgewater State Farm as charitable institution, 1886-1919 -- "A conglomerate of insane and defectives and drunks": Bridgewater State Farm as prison, 1919-55 -- "A hospital or a stable": Massachusetts Correctional Institutions -Bridgewater, 1955-87 -- "Recoil, reform, repeat": Massachusetts correctional complex Bridgewater, 1987-2017 -- Afterword

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