Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
Perkinson, Robert.
2010
HV9475.T4 P47 2010 (Mapit)
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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.
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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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