| Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down |  | Authors: Steve J. Martin, Sheldon Ekland-olson
Creator: Harry M. Whittington
Publisher: Texas Monthly Press, Austin, TX
Category: Book
Buy Used: $49.95
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Sales Rank: 3188394
Media: Paperback
Pages: 289
ISBN: 0877191905
EAN: 9780877191902
ASIN: 0877191905
Publication Date: 1987
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From Publishers Weekly In this history of Texas prison reform, the authors note that for many years prison inmates were considered "slaves of the state," a situation that had been somewhat ameliorated by the 1960s, although the system remained brutal and repressive. Most controversial were overcrowded conditions and the use of trusties to enforce discipline. In 1967 prisoner-advocacy lawyers became involved and since then the Texas Department of Corrections has been revamped and the prisons altered. Ex-prison guard and ex-special assistant state attorney general Martin and University of Texas sociology professor Ekland-Olson here detail the process by which changes were made, with emphasis on a pivotal case, the Ruiz v. Estelle class-action suit. The book will be of interest to penologists, criminologists and sociologists but is too regional and specialized for general readers outside the Lone Star State
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