The furnace of affliction prisons & religion in antebellum America - Graber, Jennifer (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index
The prison as garden, 1796-1804 -- The furnace of affliction, 1805-1823 -- The furnace at Auburn, 1816-1827 -- The furnace at Sing Sing, 1828-1839 -- The furnace transformed, 1840-1847 -- The prison as hell, 1848-1860
Focused on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s to the 1850s