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Taylor provides an outstanding history of Central Prison. Anyone interested in the history of penology in the United States, especially prisons in the South, should read this thorough and well-sourced book. The penitentiary is located in the state's capital, Raleigh, and Taylor makes the reader poignantly aware of the close connection between the prison and state politics. Central Prison, as Taylor reveals, has been part and parcel of the state's history since the nineteenth century. This is a powerful history of an uncertain commitment to justice. Given the decades of patchwork, ineffective change described in Taylor's Central Prison, it is remarkable that the state still has a prison system to reform. This richly detailed, deeply researched book places North Carolina's Central Prison squarely at the center of a history of race, capitalism, and the law that reaches far into our past but is very much with us today.

Taylor provides an outstanding history of Central Prison. Anyone interested in the history of penology in the United States, especially prisons in the South, should read this thorough and well-sourced book. The penitentiary is located in the state's capital, Raleigh, and Taylor makes the reader poignantly aware of the close connection between the prison and state politics. Central Prison, as Taylor reveals, has been part and parcel of the state's history since the nineteenth century.--Mark Jones, coauthor of North Carolina's Criminal Justice System This is a powerful history of an uncertain commitment to justice. Given the decades of patchwork, ineffective change described in Taylor's Central Prison, it is remarkable that the state still has a prison system to reform. This richly detailed, deeply researched book places North Carolina's Central Prison squarely at the center of a history of race, capitalism, and the law that reaches far into our past but is very much with us today.--Seth Kotch, author of Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina

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Gregory S. Taylor is Distinguished Professor of History at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.

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