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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American history and culture (New York University Press)Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012.Description: ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0814709400 : HRD
  • 9780814709405
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.976409043 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9475.C2 B58 2012
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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