It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read Texas Tough by Robert Perkinson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A vivid history of America’s biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation’s punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts,...
Texas Tough by Robert Perkinson is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.
This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read Texas Tough aloud.
Texas Tough is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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