Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Picador, 2010
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
- Author
- Perkinson, Robert
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312680473
- ISBN 13
- 9780312680473
- Item weight
- 765 grams
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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