Robert Perkinson

Texas Tough; The Rise of America's Prison Empire

Metropolitan books, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. 484 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs. Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. This book is a sweeping tour of southern justice, from slavery to the present, and explains how this punishment colossus came into being and how a plantation-based penal system (once dismissed as barbaric) became a template for a nation. Fine / fine. Item #E25464
ISBN: 9780805080698

Price: $18.95