Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa. Her work has been published in top international journals for interdisciplinary studies of law, punishment, and criminology and has appeared as a TEDx talk.

Introduction; Part I. Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing the Conditions for Personal Institutionalization: 1. Faith and Failure: Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America's Early State Prisons; 2. Born of Conflict: the Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System; 3. Uncertainty and Discretion: the Contours of Control at Eastern State Penitentiary; 4. Criticism and Doubt: the Pennsylvania System and the Social Construction of Penal Norms; Part II. The Advantage of Difference: the Process of Institutionalization: 5. Neutralizing the Calumnious Myths: Administrators' Public Defense of the Pennsylvania System; 6. Combatting the Pains of Deviance: Organizational Defense as Self-defense; 7. Strategic Manipulations: Acceptable and Unacceptable Violations of the Pennsylvania System; 8. Turning a Blind Eye: Reputation and the Limits of Administrative Commitment; Part III. Forced to Adapt: the Conditions for and Process of Deinstitutionalization: 9. An Alternative Status: Administrators' Transition from Gentleman Reformers to Professional Penologists; 10. Fading Away: National Obscurity, Catastrophic Overcrowding, and the Individual Treatment System; Conclusion.