Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Book Details
- Author
- Robert Perkinson
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Native American
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780312680473
- ISBN-10
- 0312680473
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ISBN: 0312680473
Author: Perkinson, Robert
Condition: New
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.
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