Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blue, Ethan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:American history and culture.
Subjects:
Prisoners > California > History.
Prisons > California > Social conditions.
Prison administration > California > History.
Prisoners > Texas > History.
Prisons > Texas > Social conditions.
Prison administration > Texas > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Prison administration
Prisoners
Strafvollzug
Alltag
California
Texas
Kalifornien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration
  • Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons
  • From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations
  • Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards
  • Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment
  • Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment
  • A dark cloud would go over : death and dying
  • Going home.

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