
- 409 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Hard Labor and Hard Time is a history of continuity and change in Florida's state prison system between 1910 and 1957, exploring conditions at the state prison farm at Raiford (the third largest prison farm in the South at this time) as well as in the chain gangs and road prisons.
Vivien Miller examines the experiences of the prisoners as well as the guards and other prison personnel in this comprehensive, groundbreaking study. She demonstrates that despite progressive changes in the treatment of inmates (better diet, better structuring of work and leisure activities, better medical provision, and the like), these improvements were matched by continued brutality and mistreatment, unequal or discriminatory treatment according to race and/or gender, and neglect.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Building the “Best Prison in the South”
- 2. Good Roads, Bad Men, and the Ugliest of Conditions
- 3. Cruel and Usual Punishments
- 4. The Rise of the Sunshine Prison
- 5. Chapman and the Big House
- 6. Florida’s Hard Road during the Depression and War Years
- 7. Continuity and Change at Raiford
- 8. Prison Health Care
- 9. Life in the Big House
- 10. Riot and Disorder at the Rock
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index