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Impermissible Punishments How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy Marlene Gerber Fried thanks to a life-changing friendshipBy: Judith Resnik Published by University of Chicago Press, 2025 "This wholly original book provides the untold history of punishment inside prisons. Legal scholar Judith Resnik charts the invention of the corrections profession that imposed radical restrictions on human movement as if doing so was normal. She weaves together the stories of people who debated how to punish and the stories of people living under the regimes that resulted. Resnik