Hard labor and hard time
Subtitle: Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs
By: Vivien M. L. Miller
Series: New perspectives on the history of the South; New perspectives on the history of the South
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780813039855
Subjects: Correctional institutions; Prisons; Punishment; History
Description: An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building the "best prison in the south"; title: Good roads, bad men, and the ugliest of conditions; title: Cruel and usual punishments; title: The rise of the sunshine prison; title: Chapman and the big house; title: Florida's hard road during the depression and war years; title: Continuity and change at Raiford; title: Prison health care; title: Life in the big house; title: Riot and disorder at the rock.