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Donald Clemmer  

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  • Donald Clemmer was one of the first to study and document the psychological effects prison life can have on inmates. He is best known for The Prison Community published in 1940 in which he coined the word prisonization to explain how individuals adapt to incarceration. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Clemmer, Donald]

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