Robert Perkinson appears in the following:
Texas Tough
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Historian Robert Perkinson gives a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, and looks how Texas has influenced criminal justice severity, from executions to supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. His book Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire, shows how a plantation-based penal system became the national standard.