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Robert Perkinson

Robert Perkinson is writing a book on the history of Texas prisons. He is Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Articles

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

Robert Perkinson
The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos.
Kieko Matteson, Robert Perkinson

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