Hard Time: Voices from a State Prison, 1849-1914
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Penitentiary stripes, days in "the hole," contraband knives, murder, sex, suicide, and the daily reality of "diabolical, penal servitude"--prisons of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were dangerous, sometimes deadly, stone fortresses bent on exacting punishment and penance from their inmates.
When it was founded, the old State Prison at Stillwater, Minnesota--the facility where "incorrigibles" were sent to do "hard time"--was no...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0873514343
ISBN13:9780873514347
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Minnesota Historical Society Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 8.6" x 9.0"
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