Voices from a southern prison
By: Lloyd C. Anderson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Kentucky. -- State Reformatory; Kentucky. -- State Reformatory -- Trials, litigation, etc; Prisons -- Kentucky -- La Grange; Prisons -- Law and legislation -- Kentucky -- La Grange; Prisoners -- Kentucky -- La Grange; Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Kentucky -- La Grange; Prison reformers -- Kentucky -- La Grange
Description: "By 1978, The Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange had become a sickening, dangerous place, where an inmate could get his hands on a sawed-off shotgun more easily than a clean towel.".

"That year a handful of KSR prisoners managed to send a plea for help to the federal court in Louisville. The petitioners expected reprisals or, maybe worse, silence. But the letter reached a caring judge, and the prisoners had spoken up at a crucial moment in Kentucky reform politics. The suit was settled in the KSR prisoners' favor in 1981, paving the way for controversial, protracted, and expensive reforms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index