Hard Labor and Hard Time: Florida's Sunshine Prison and Chain Gangs

by Vivien M.L. Miller

"There are few, if any, state-level prison histories that are as impressively researched. This is an authoritative account that contributes a great deal to our understanding of the politics and practice of modern punishment."--Joseph F. Spillane, University of Florida "Miller's extraordinary research into the history of Florida's prisons illustrates the fundamental disjuncture between a rural southern penal system that grew from chain gangs, turpentine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813039851
• ISBN13: 9780813039855
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"