This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artefacts.

1. Introduction: Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past I: On the Inside: Carceral Techniques in Historical Context 2. Carceral Acoustemologies: Historical Geographies of Sound in a Canadian prison 3. The Prison Inside: A Genealogy of Solitary Confinement as Counter-Resistance 4. 'Sores in the City': A Genealogy of the Almighty Black P. Stone Rangers II: Prisons as Artefacts in Historical-Cultural Transition 5. Doing Time Travel: Performing Past and Present at the Prison Museum 6. Carceral Retasking and the Work of Historical Societies at Decommissioned Lock-ups, Jails, and Prisons in Ontario 7. Prisoners in Zion: Shaker Sites as Foundations for Later Communities of Incarceration 8. Cartographies of Affect: Undoing the Prison in Collective Art by Women Prisoners III: Carceral Topographies: The Political-Economy of Prison Industrial Growth and Change 9. Locating Penal Transportation: Punishment, Space, and Place ca. 1750-1900 10. Little Siberia, Star of the North: The Political Economy of Prison Dreams in the Adirondacks 11. From Prisons to Hyperpolicing: Neoliberalism, Carcerality, and Regulative Geographies 12. From Private to Public: Examining the Political Economy of Wisconsin's Private Prison Experiment13. Afterword