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  • 1 - Faith and Failure: Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America’s Early State Prisons

  • from Part I - Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing The Conditions for Personal Institutionalization
  • Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book:
    The Deviant Prison
    Published online:
    12 January 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 5-34
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    This Introduction identifies Eastern’s puzzling position in the landscape of nineteenth-century prisons: one of a few prisons, and then the only prison, to use a system of long-term solitary confinement. This chapter explores the historiography of Eastern and the early prisons looking for answers to the question of why one prison alone would continue to use a highly criticized mode of confinement? Turning to organizational theory, we find an answer in Philip Selznick’s “old” institutional theory. This chapter then identifies some of the ways in which a unique prison’s history helps us better understand the development of nineteenth-century prisons and penal change more generally. It concludes with some methodological notes.