Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
Perkinson, Robert.
2010
HV9475.T4 P47 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
Author Perkinson, Robert.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780805080698
0805080694
Publication Details New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Language English
Description 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HV9475.T4 P47 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 365/.9764
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prison heartland
Plantation and penitentiary
"Worse than slavery"
The agonies of reform
The penal colony that wasn't
"Best in the nation"
Appeal to justice
Retributive revolution
The triumph of Texas tough.

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