Texas Tough

Frances Jalet, “Ellis Report,” November 6, 1968, William Bennet Turner Files, personal collection.

George Washington Cable, The Silent South, Together with the Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System (New York: Scribners, 1885)

“Horrors of a Texas Prison,” St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, August 9, 1875.

John Q. Wilson, “If Every Prisoner Knew He Would Be Punished If Caught,” New York Times Magazine, January 28, 1973.