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Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be ""the world's toughest prison"" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stateville James B. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, presents the first historical examination of a total prison organization-administrators, guards, prisoners, and special interest groups.Jacobs applies Edward Shi

This article calls attention to the tendency of liberal criminologists to mix facts and values when assessing sentencing policies. It argues that an objective methodology for ranking countries with respect to sentencing severity has yet to be developed and urges caution and clarification in making moral criticisms of US sentencing policy and imprisonment rates.

A sociolegal perspective is developed for examining legal change within the US armed forces since WWII. Three trends in the military law are identified: (1) the extension of procedural & substantive rights, (2) a shift of emphasis from criminal to administrative law, & (3) a reemphasis on the contractual nature of military service. A historical analysis of the sources of legal change indicates that neither Congress nor the federal courts have served as important change agents. Change has occurred because of more indirect impacts of civilian legal trends on military personnel & military lawyers & decision-makers. While the limits of the extension of rights may now have been reached, the movement toward a more contractual relationship between the service person & the military remains strong. 1 Table. AA.