Inside the Wire
Subtitle: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780292744967
Subjects: Prisons, united states; Prisoners, united states
Description: "'Inside the Wire' presents a complete, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm. With freedom to wander the fields and facilities and hang out with inmates for extended periods, Jackson captured everything from the hot, backbreaking work of hand-picking cotton, to the cacophony and lack of all privacy in the cell blocks, to the grim solitude of death row. He also includes some early twentieth-century prisoner identification shots, taken by anonymous convict photographers for the prison files, that survive as profoundly evocative human portraits."--Publisher description.