Title: Voices from a southern prison
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.
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Prisons, Prisoners, Law and legislation, Kentucky, Legal status, laws, Kentucky. State Reformatory, Prison reformers, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Civil Rights
Places: Kentucky, La Grange