Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson.
Publication details: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780805080698 (hc.)
- 0805080694 (hc.)
- 9780312680473 (pbk.)
- 365/.9764 22
- HV9475.T4 P47 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index.
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.
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.