Hard Labor and Hard Time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and Chain Gangs PDF
by Vivien M.L. Miller
Part of the New Perspectives on the History of the South series
Description
Hard Labor and Hard Time is a history of continuity and change in Florida's state prison system between 1910 and 1957, exploring conditions at the state prison farm at Raiford (the third largest prison farm in the South at this time) as well as in the chain gangs and road prisons.
Vivien Miller examines the experiences of the prisoners as well as the guards and other prison personnel in this comprehensive, groundbreaking study. She demonstrates that despite progressive changes in the treatment of inmates (better diet, better structuring of work and leisure activities, better medical provision, and the like), these improvements were matched by continued brutality and mistreatment, unequal or discriminatory treatment according to race and/or gender, and neglect.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:24/06/2012
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- ISBN:9780813043524
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:400 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:24/06/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813043524
