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.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
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.
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Subject	Prisons -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
	Prisons.
	Florida.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Correctional institutions -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
	Correctional institutions.
	Punishment -- Florida -- History -- 20th century.
	Punishment.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
	Electronic books -- 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 book)
	0813043522 (electronic book)
	9780813039855
	0813039851