Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.

As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working pe...

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Main Author: Blue, Ethan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:American history and culture.
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