Title: Texas tough
Subtitle: the rise of America's prison empire
First published: 2009
Description: In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change.
Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Prison administration, History, Prisons, united states, Prisoners, united states, Strafvollzug
Places: Texas
LC classification: HV9475.T4 P47 2009