The History of the Raiford Family
The History of the Raiford Family

Author: William Russell Raiford

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Phillip Raiford (1649-1724) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight Co. Virginia before 1680 and married Sarah Kinchen sometime between 1681 and 1687. He is believed to be the ancestor to all Raiford families in America. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Florida and elsewhere.

Hard Labor and Hard Time
Hard Labor and Hard Time

Author: Vivien M.L. Miller

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2012-06-24

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0813043522

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Hard Labor and Hard Time is a history of continuity and change in Florida's state prison system between 1910 and 1957, exploring conditions at the state prison farm at Raiford (the third largest prison farm in the South at this time) as well as in the chain gangs and road prisons. Vivien Miller examines the experiences of the prisoners as well as the guards and other prison personnel in this comprehensive, groundbreaking study. She demonstrates that despite progressive changes in the treatment of inmates (better diet, better structuring of work and leisure activities, better medical provision, and the like), these improvements were matched by continued brutality and mistreatment, unequal or discriminatory treatment according to race and/or gender, and neglect.

Jailhouse Journalism
Jailhouse Journalism

Author: James McGrath Morris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1351511238

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In the 1980s alone, some 100 periodicals were published by and for inmates of America's prisons. Unlike their peers who passed their sentences stamping out licence plates, these convicts spent their days like reporters in any community - looking for the story. Yet their own story, the lengthy history of their unique brand of journalism, remained largely unknown. In this volume James McGrath Morris seeks to address the history of this medium, the lives of the men and women who brought it to life, and the controversies that often surround it.