Doing time in the Depression everyday life in Texas and California prisons / [electronic resource] :
Ethan Blue.
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
- ix, 326 p. : ill.
- American history and culture .
- American history and culture. .
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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