@article{342052, author = {Perkinson, Robert.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/342052}, title = {Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire /}, publisher = {Metropolitan Books,}, abstract = {In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change.}, recid = {342052}, pages = {484 p., [8] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2010}, }