Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.

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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Main Author: Perkinson, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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