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Author Trulson, Chad R.

Title First available cell : desegregation of the Texas prison system / Chad R. Trulson and James W. Marquart ; foreword by Ben M. Crouch
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 277 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents Broken barriers -- An institutional fault line -- 18,000 days -- The color line persists -- Cracks in the color line -- Full assault on the color line -- The color line breaks -- 7,000 days later -- Life in the first available cell -- The most unlikely place
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Prisons -- Texas -- History
Prison administration -- Texas -- History
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- History
Segregation -- Texas -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Prison administration.
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Prisons.
Segregation.
Texas.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Marquart, James W. (James Walter), 1954-
ISBN 9780292793354
0292793359
0292719833
9780292719835