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Carleton, Mark T : Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System

Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisana, 1971

ISBN 0807109401

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T6 - A first edition (no additional printings) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears on the edges, corners, and some sides, light tanning and shelf wear. Book lightly cocked, some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Mark Thomas Carleton was a historian who specialized in political studies of Louisiana. From 1964 until his death at the age of sixty, he was a professor at Louisiana State University in his native Baton Rouge. In 1971, Carleton published his Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System (1971), with emphasis on the large prison farm at Angola, bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. Carleton reports that nearly "overnight" in Louisiana and several other southern prisons, the inmate population became predominantly African American. The prison was populated at first mostly by young men from farming backgrounds. Carleton claims that agriculture became key to southern prisons in the era after the American Civil War. Convict labor and farm work became "synonymous terms in the public and political mind." 8.75"x5.75", 215 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good

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