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Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire
- Title
- Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
- Author
- Perkinson, Robert.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
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- Description
- 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2052
- ISBN
- 9780805080698 (hc.)
- 0805080694 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2009014670
- OCLC
- 317928797
- Author
- Perkinson, Robert.
- Title
- Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
- Imprint
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2052