Melanie D. Newport is an Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Connecticut-Hartford. She is affiliated faculty in American Studies and Urban and Community Studies. She is currently working on a manuscript called Community of the Condemned: Chicago and the Transformation of the American Jail, under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press.

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