TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perkinson,Robert
TI  - Texas tough: the rise of America's prison empire 
SN  - 9780805080698 (hc.)
AV  - HV9475.T4 P47 2010
U1  - 365/.9764 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Metropolitan Books
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - Prison administration
KW  - Prisoners
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -