From black power to prison power the making of jones v north carolina prisoners labor union contemporary black history amazonde d tibbs fremdsprachige bucher. In from black power to prison power donald f tibbs deftly exposes how racial fears joined anti radical repression to entrench institutional law and order as a substitute for justice in the development and decision of the too little noticed 1977 us supreme court case of jones v north carolina prisoners labor union thomas j davis phd jd author of race relations in america. Download citation from black power to prison power the making of jones v north carolina prisoners labor union on thursday june 23 1977 the united states supreme court ruled in jones v. From black power to prison power the making of jones v north carolina prisoners labor union by tibbs donald f new york palgrave macmillan 2012 260 pp 9000 cloth tryon p woods department of sociology anthropology and crime and justice studies university of massachusetts dartmouth search for more papers by this author tryon p woods department of sociology anthropology . From black power to prison power presents a historical analysis of law and race during the black power movement as well as their import in the jones decision it offers a clearer context for the domestic and international imperatives that characterized prisoners rights politics during the black power era and details how social factors as opposed to the rule of law galvanized the highest court in the united states to forever alter the course of prisoners rights law