Hard labor and hard time Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs
by
 
Miller, Vivien M. L.

Title
: 
Hard labor and hard time Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs

Author
: 
Miller, Vivien M. L.

ISBN
: 
9780813043524

Publication Information
: 
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)

Physical Description
: 
1 online resource (400 p.)

Series
: 
New perspectives on the history of the South

Series Title
: 
New perspectives on the history of the South

Contents
: 
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.

Abstract
: 
An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.

Subject Term
: 
Punishment -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
 
Correctional institutions -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
 
Prisons -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.

Added Corporate Author
: 
Project Muse.

Electronic Access
: 
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