Texas tough
Subtitle: the rise of America's prison empire
By: Robert Perkinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780805080698
Subjects: Prisons -- Texas -- History; Prison administration -- Texas -- History; Prisoners -- Texas -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prison heartland; title: Plantation & penitentiary; title: "Worse than slavery"; title: The agonies of reform; title: A dream deferred; title: "Best in the nation"; title: Appeal to justice; title: Retributive revolution; title: The triumph of Texas tough.