In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change.
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In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 484 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009014670 Type of material Book Personal name Perkinson, Robert. Main title Texas tough: the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010. Description 484 p., [8] p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780805080698 (hc. ) 0805080694 (hc. ) LC classification HV9475. T4 P47 2010 Summary In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. This sweeping history of American imprisonment shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric becomes the national template--and how that injustice can change. Contents Prison heartland--Plantation and penitentiary--"Worse than slavery"--The agonies of reform--The penal colony that wasn't--"Best in the nation"--Appeal to justice--Retributive revolution--The triumph of Texas tough. LC Subjects Prisons--Texas--History. Prison administration--Texas--History. Prisoners--Texas--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index. Dewey class no. 365/.9764 Geographic area code n-us-tx Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn317928797
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"Texas Tough" outlines and explains the rise of the Texas and American prison populations to their current high levels, utilizing thorough and detailed original research. This is probably one of the best histories of a state correctional system in print. A "hero" of the book is David Ruiz, a famous prison writ writer. The book argues that "Texas tough" policies went national and international with the Bush Administration after 9-11. The author takes his best shots at conservatives, although both parties he shows were motivated by "law & order" politics, crime rates, media coverage, civil unrest and a punitive mentality.
The author's anti-Southern, anti-Republican and prisoner-as-victim bias will alienate some readers, but his criticisms and observations are generally fair arguments when metaphors are excluded. Like "The New Jim Crow," Mr. Perkinson offers no solutions, and like "Are Prisons Obsolete?" he falls back on generalized and impractical dreams of attacking the root causes of crime. "Texas Tough" ignores the limitations on private prison industries caused by several restrictive federal statutes, as stated in "Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison," but generally proves the futility of the government solutions tried to date. The author's proof of Southern racism is not balanced by statistics at The Sentencing Project's website showing that the states of the former Confederacy incarcerate markedly smaller percentages of their African American populations than do the Northern states which defeated the South.
The author thoroughly researched the development of the Texas prison system and also provides excellent background for the current crisis in America's prisons.
