Christopher D. Berk

Who ought to govern those held in custody, and by what right? Democracy in Captivity examines various efforts to answer these questions, centring on two case studies at custodial institutions: the rise and demise of patient self-governance at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC, between 1947 and 1965, and the prisoner-organised governance of Massachusetts's Walpole State Prison following a 1973...