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Inside the Wire - Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons (Hardcover, New)
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Inside the Wire - Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons (Hardcover, New)
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As recently as the 1970s, many inmates in southern prisons lived
and worked on prison farms that were not only modelled after the
American slave plantation, but even occupied lands that literally
were slave plantations before the Civil War, and on which working
and living conditions had not changed much a century after the war.
Bruce Jackson began visiting some of these prison farms in the
1960s to study black convict work-songs and folk culture. He took a
camera along as means of visual note taking, but soon realized that
he had an extraordinary opportunity to document a world whose
harshness was so extreme that at least one prison had been declared
unconstitutional. Allowed unsupervised access to prison farms in
Texas and Arkansas, Jackson created an astonishing photographic
record, most of which has never before been published in book form.
Inside the Wire presents a complete, irreplaceable portrait of the
southern prison farm. With freedom to wander the fields and
facilities and hang out with inmates for extended periods, Jackson
captured everything from the hot, backbreaking work of hand-picking
cotton, to the cacophony and lack of all privacy in the cell
blocks, to the grim solitude of death row. He also includes some
early twentieth-century prisoner identification shots, taken by
anonymous convict photographers for the prison files, that survive
as profoundly evocative human portraits. These images and Jackson's
photographs document, as no previous work has, the humanity of the
people and the inhumanity of the institutions in which they labour
and languish. As Jackson says, sometimes kindness happens with
prison, but prison itself is a cruel world outsiders can scarcely
imagine. I hope nothing in this book suggests otherwise.
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