{"product_id":"an-appeal-to-justice-ben-m-crouch-9780292723801","title":"An Appeal to Justice: Litigated Reform of Texas Prisons","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has been the most significant force in obtaining change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Appeal to Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical tudy of how the Texas Department of Corrections was transformed by \u003ci\u003eRuiz v. Estelle\u003c\/i\u003e, the most sweeping class-action suit in correctional law history. Orders from federal judge William W. Justice rapidly moved the Texas system from one of the most autonomous, isolated, and paternalistic system to a more constitutional bureaucracy. In many respects the Texas experience is a microcosm of the transformation of American corrections over the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a careful account of TDC's fearful past as a plantation system, its tumultuous litigated reform, and its subsequent efforts to balance prisoner rights and prison order. Of major importance is the detailed examination of the broad stages of the reform process (and its costs and benefits) and an intimate look at prison brutality and humanity. The authors examine the terror tactics of the inmate guards, the development of prisoner gangs and widespread violence during the reforms, and the stability that eventually emerged. They also detail the change of the guard force from a relatively small, cohesive cadre dependent on discretion, personal loyalty, and physical dominance to a larger and more fragmented security staff controlled by formal procedures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on years of research in archival sources and on hundreds of interviews with prisoners, administrators, and staff, \u003ci\u003eAn Appeal to Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique basis for assessing the course and consequences of prison litigation and will be valuable reading for legislators, lawyers, judges, prison administrators, and concerned citizens, as well as prison and public policy scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben M. Crouch, James W. Marquart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292723806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292723801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Ben M. Crouch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981531611391,"sku":"9780292723801","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7b7b6a34-2e8f-47bf-b531-434c761a87f3.jpg?v=1683256127","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-appeal-to-justice-ben-m-crouch-9780292723801","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}