Read We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America - Robert T. Chase file in ePub Online

Read We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America - Robert T. Chase file in ePub

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public

Title : We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America
Author : Robert T. Chase
Language : en
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