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Author Miller, Vivien M. L., author.

Title Hard labor and hard time : Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs / Vivien M.L. Miller.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) : illustrations.
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Series New perspectives on the history of the South
New perspectives on the history of the South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-388) and index.
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.
Summary An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
Note Print version record.
Subject Prisons -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
Correctional institutions -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
Punishment -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Correctional institutions. (OCoLC)fst00880178
Prisons. (OCoLC)fst01077326
Punishment. (OCoLC)fst01084107
Florida. (OCoLC)fst01205150
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, Vivien M.L. Hard labor and hard time. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012 9780813039855 (DLC) 2012009909 (OCoLC)748330860
ISBN 9780813043524 (electronic bk.)
0813043522 (electronic bk.)
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