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AND KEITH A. PESTO
ALISON E. HATCH
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ALISON E. HATCH, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and
gender studies at Armstrong State University, Savannah, GA.
JOSEPH A. MELUSKY, PhD, is professor of political science at
Saint Francis University (SFU).
KEITH A. PESTO has been a magistrate judge for the U.S. NEW
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development of men’s and women’s prisons in the United States DAVID E. NEWTON, EdD, has been a freelance writer of
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