{"product_id":"it-s-hell-texas-pen-inside-information-written-ex-convicts-juanz5rz","title":"It's Hell in a Texas Pen. Inside Information Written by Ex-Convicts That Served a Term. Also Recent State Investigation at Austin.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rare compilation of lurid accounts reporting on the mistreatment of both male and female inmates housed in Texas prisons in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe accounts include “Ten Years in Hell” - William Mosser’s firsthand story of life inside the state prison at Huntsville; “Tortures in the Pen” by an author identified only as “A Van Zandt County Boy;” the anonymous “Experiences of a Hunt County Boy - Facts About a Year Spent in a Texas Penitentiary”; and “Dallas Woman Tells of Conditions of San Quentin in Comparison to Those on Texas Prison Farms.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo publication information is provided within the work, but there are several excerpts of stories from the Austin Bureau of the \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e, so the work was probably printed in Austin (or at the headquarters of the newspaper in Dallas). Among these excerpts is one titled, “Ex-Convict Asserts He Was Mutilated - Same Witness Says He Was Laid on Bed of Ants While He Was Ill.” Another notable article reports on the testimony of Mrs. J.E. King, chairman of the prison advisory board, who relates accounts of the murder of a Cuban inmate named Alfred Chance and another instance when Mrs. King “found a negro convict, named John Bell, suffering from blood poisoning in one of his hands” after being “hung up on a ladder by his hands.” The final three pages of the pamphlet as “Is There a Remedy?” for the ills of the Texas prison system, and then suggests changes to be made, including the abolition of the three-person prison commission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOCLC locates copies at SMU and UT Austin only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48674945794205,"sku":"262200","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/it-s-hell-texas-pen-inside-information-written-ex-convicts-juanz5rz","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}