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The author wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life : a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.

Prison administration --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- History --- State Prison, Trenton (N.J.) --- Prisonniers --- Administration --- Histoire. --- History. --- Geschichte 1958. --- New Jersey. --- African Americans. --- Bettelheim, Bruno. --- Driscoll, Alfred E. --- East, Norwood. --- Fleisher, Mark. --- Irwin, John. --- Jacobs, James. --- Language and Society (Lewis). --- McKorkle, Lloyd. --- Messinger, Sheldon L. --- National Research Council. --- Ohlin, Lloyd. --- Rhodes, Lorna. --- Strong, S. A. --- Useem, Bert. --- ball busters. --- center men. --- custodians. --- escape artists. --- gorillas. --- guards. --- hipsters. --- incarceration. --- merchants. --- penal labor. --- penology. --- prisons. --- quantification. --- real men. --- social groups. --- sociology. --- swag. --- toughs. --- violence. --- weaklings. --- wolves.