Hard Labor and Hard Time: Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and Chain Gangs
- ISBN-10
- 0813039851
- ISBN-13
- 9780813039855
- Category
- Correctional institutions
- Pages
- 393
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Author
- Vivien M. L. Miller
Description
An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
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- 2012-06-24
- 409 pages
- Paperback
- University Press of Florida
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