Hard labor and hard time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs / Vivien M.L. Miller.
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TextSeries: New perspectives on the history of the SouthPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813043524
- 0813043522
- Prisons -- Florida -- History -- 20th century
- Correctional institutions -- Florida -- History -- 20th century
- Punishment -- Florida -- History -- 20th century
- Prisons -- Floride -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Établissements de correction -- Floride -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Correctional institutions
- Prisons
- Punishment
- Florida
- 1900-1999
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- HV9475.F6 M56 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-388) and index.
Building the "best prison in the south" -- Good roads, bad men, and the ugliest of conditions -- Cruel and usual punishments -- The rise of the sunshine prison -- Chapman and the big house -- Florida's hard road during the depression and war years -- Continuity and change at Raiford -- Prison health care -- Life in the big house -- Riot and disorder at the rock.
An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
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