Description
In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity--from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization--Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, explains how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became a template for the nation.
Drawing on the individual stories as well as authoritative research, Texas Tough reveals the true origins of America's prison juggernaut and points toward a more just and humane future.Author: Robert Perkinson
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/26/2010
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780312680473
ISBN10: 0312680473
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Penology
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Political Science | Law Enforcement
About the Author
Robert Perkinson is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
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