Texas Tough
The Rise of America's Prison Empire

Publisher:  Metropolitan Books
Year Published:  2010
Pages:  496pp   ISBN:  978-0805080698
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX12001

A history of imprisonment, race, and politics from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most locked-down state in the USA.

Subject Headings

• Correctional Institutions
• Crime & Punishment
• Criminal Justice System
• Human Rights Abuses
• Human Rights Violations
• Incarceration
• Penal System
• Prisoners
• Prisons
• Punishment
• Racism
• Slavery