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Hard labor and hard time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs / Vivien M. L. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Vivien M. L.
- Series:
- New perspectives on the history of the South.
- New perspectives on the history of the South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--Florida--History--20th century.
- Prisons.
- Correctional institutions--Florida--History--20th century.
- Correctional institutions.
- Punishment--Florida--History--20th century.
- Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4376-X
- 0-8130-4352-2
- OCLC:
- 809044628
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