jach2005

@Article{ jach2005,
	author = {Theresa R. Jach},
	title = {Reform versus Reality in the Progressive Era Texas Prison},
	journal = {Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era},
	volume = 4,
	number = 1,
	month = {January},
	pages = {53-67},
	year = 2005,
}

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p. 53-54: “From 1870 to 1880, the convict population in Texas grew from 489 to 2,157. By 1900, the numbers had swelled to 4,109. Although African Americans never made up more than 31 percent of Texas’ population in this period, the percentage of blacks in the prison population stayed at 50-60 percent.” Figures based on Biennial Reports.

p. 55: suggests that prison population had increased to 1,723 already by 1876.