Download or read book Special Issue written by Austin Sarat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution.