books.google.com - The word "prison" immediately evokes stark images: forbidding walls spiked with watchtowers; inmates confined to cramped cells for hours on end; the suspicious eyes of armed guards. They seem to be the inevitable and permanent marks of confinement, as though prisons were a timeless institution stretching...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Oxford_History_of_the_Prison.html?id=bwvH5ce94eIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Oxford History of the Prison