Doing time in the depression
Subtitle: everyday life in Texas and California prisons
By: Ethan Blue
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780814709405; 9780814709412; 9780814723166
Subjects: Social conditions; Prisoners; History; Prison administration; Prisons
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration; title: Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons; title: From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations; title: Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards; title: Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment; title: Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment; title: A dark cloud would go over : death and dying; title: Going home.