Perkinson, Robert. <br/><br/>
Texas tough :  the rise of America's prison empire / 
Robert Perkinson. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Metropolitan Books,  2010. 
 - 484 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780805080698 (hc.) 0805080694 (hc.) 9780312680473 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009014670 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prisons--History.--Texas<br/>Prison administration--History.--Texas<br/>Prisoners--History.--Texas
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9475.T4  / P47 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.9764