Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire

by Robert Perkinson

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A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough , a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0805080694

ISBN13:9780805080698

Release Date:March 2010

Publisher:Metropolitan Books

Length:484 Pages

Weight:1.61 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Death Penalty Non-Fiction Criminal Law History Law Enforcement Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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