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.
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