Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Oxford History of the Prison and the author of The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. In 2000, he received both the American Society of Criminology's Edwin E. Sutherland Award and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency's Donald Cressey Award.

Readers could not ask for a better guide to this island of exiles and birthplace of prison reform. A widely published criminologist and respected academic, Morris understands the inner workings of prisons and shares with his principal characters the belief 'that punishment, allowing room for and facilitating redemption, dignifies society, makes prison service a constructive occupation and enhances public safety."--Jennifer Wynn, Washington Post

Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Oxford History of the Prison and the author of The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. In 2000, he received both the American Society of Criminology's Edwin E. Sutherland Award and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency's Donald Cressey Award.

Readers could not ask for a better guide to this island of exiles and birthplace of prison reform. A widely published criminologist and respected academic, Morris understands the inner workings of prisons and shares with his principal characters the belief 'that punishment, allowing room for and facilitating redemption, dignifies society, makes prison service a constructive occupation and enhances public safety."--Jennifer Wynn, Washington Post

Norval Morris is Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of The Oxford History of the Prison and the author of The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. In 2000, he received both the American Society of Criminology's Edwin E. Sutherland Award and the National Council of Crime and Delinquency's Donald Cressey Award.

Readers could not ask for a better guide to this island of exiles and birthplace of prison reform. A widely published criminologist and respected academic, Morris understands the inner workings of prisons and shares with his principal characters the belief 'that punishment, allowing room for and facilitating redemption, dignifies society, makes prison service a constructive occupation and enhances public safety."--Jennifer Wynn, Washington Post