Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perkinson, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Prisons > Texas > History.
Prison administration > Texas > History.
Prisoners > Texas > History.
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Table of 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.

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