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Texas tough
Authors:
Robert Perkinson
Material type:
Books
Language:
English
Publisher:
Year:
2010
Call number:
365.9764
ISBN:
9780805080698 (hc.)
0805080694 (hc.)
Number of copies the library owns or has ordered:
1
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1 Prison Heartland
15
2 Plantation and Penitentiary
47
3 "Worse Than Slavery"
83
4 The Agonies of Reform
132
5 The Penal Colony That Wasn't
177
6 "Best in the Nation"
215
7 Appeal to Justice
251
8 Retributive Revolution
286
9 The Triumph of Texas Tough
325
Conclusion
357
Notes
375
Acknowledgments
467
Index
471