Doing time in the depression : everyday life in Texas and California prisons / Ethan Blue.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blue, Ethan
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:American history and culture (New York University Press)
Subjects:
Prisoners > California > History.
Prisons > California > Social conditions.
Prison administration > California > History.
Prisoners > Texas > History.
Prisons > Texas > Social conditions.
Prison administration > Texas > History.
Physical Description:ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Of bodies and borders : the demography of incarceration
  • Work in the walled city : labor and discipline in California's prisons
  • From can see to can't : agricultural labor and industrial reform on Texas penal plantations
  • Shifting markets of power : building tenders, con bosses, queens, and guards
  • Thirty minutes behind the walls : prison radio and the popular culture of punishment
  • Sport and celebration in the popular culture of punishment
  • A dark cloud would go over : death and dying
  • Going home.