![]() | Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons Subjects: Prisoners -- California -- History; Prisons -- California -- Social conditions; Prison administration -- California -- History; Prisoners -- Texas -- History; Prisons -- Texas -- Social conditions; Prison administration -- Texas -- History; As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world--overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Blue Ethan : Ethan Blue is Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. |
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