Penology for Profit

Before the discovery of oil and the advent of Progressivism to Texas, the state dealt with prison overcrowding by leasing convicts and their labor to private industry and funneling the profits into the state's coffers. In this book, Donald R. Walker examines economic, social, and political aspects of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas that resulted in the leasing system and its eventual demise.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
Background to Leasing: The Early Years of the Texas Penitentiary	p. 13
Early Failures, 1867-1878	p. 13
The Successful Lease, 1878-1883	p. 46
The State as Lessor, 1883-1912	p. 78
The Prisoner's Lot	p. 112
The Powers That Were: Leadership of the Prison System	p. 143
The End of Leasing	p. 163
The Texas Experience in Perspective	p. 191
Afterword	p. 198
Selected Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 211
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