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• Author/Creator:Minsky, Richard, book artist, bookbinder.
  
• Title:Forlorn Hope. The Prison Reform Movement by Larry E. Sullivan : The Eighth Amendment / Richard Minsky.
  
• Edition:Unique.
  
• Published/Created:[Stockport, N.Y.] : Richard Minsky, [1996]
  
• Physical Description:xi, 164 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm in box 10 x 8 x 7 in.
  

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  • Location:Haas Arts Special Collections (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in Haas Arts Library Special Collections
    
    
  • Call Number: N7433.4.M56 S86 1996 (LC) Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Unique, edition of 1.
  Title from Minsky website.
  From Minsky's United States Constitution series, The Bill of Rights section, this work is subtitled The Eighth Amendment--www.minsky.com
  Binding by Richard Minsky, 1996. 10 x 8 x 7. Chain binding with handcuffs and padlock, painted in acrylic prison stripes over publisher's binding, with ISBN stamped on hologram foil, in a case with jail doors. Acrylic/latex over wood. The book was published by G.K. Hall in 1990.--www.minsky.com
  
• Summary:The book traces the history of prison reform in the United States, as the reformers attempt to set up a system that would deter further crime and rehabilitate convicts come into conflict with the need to punish and the inherent character of imprisonment.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Sullivan, Larry E. Prison reform movement : forlorn hope.
  Prisons--United States--History.
  Prisons in art.
  Artists' books--United States--Specimens.
  Prisons.
  United States.
  
• Genre/Form:History.
  
• Also listed under:Sullivan, Larry E. Prison reform movement : forlorn hope.