Author: Lee Bernstein
Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
Keywords: prison, 1970s, politics, arts, america
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0807833878
ISBN-13: 9780807833872
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance," shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson’s revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Piero’s acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes. An extraordinary range of p
Author: Philip Priestley
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Cor
Keywords: prison, biography, english, lives, victorian
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1985-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0416347703
ISBN-13: 9780416347708
You would not have enjoyed spending time in a Victorian prison, as Philip Priestley’s beautifully written and genuinely terrifying study demonstrates. Synthesizing a wide range of actual individual experiences, Priestly takes us through all the stages of incarceration, from "The Cell" and "The Daily Round" to "Discipline", "The Scaffold"’ (gulp) and, for those lucky enough to make it, "Release". The accounts he builds on range from the prison autobiographies of celebrated forgers like Austin Bidwell to accounts written under shamefaced pseudonyms (so potent was the stigma), such as
Author: Demico Boothe
Publisher: Full Surface Publishing
Keywords: men, prison, lives, african, american, entity, industry, comprehensive, account, black, predatory
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0979295300
ISBN-13: 9780979295300
African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million more on probation or parole or who have previously been on probation or parole. Black males make up the majority of the total prison population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most socially disenfranchised group of american citizens in the country today. This book, which was penned by Boothe while he was still incarcerated, details the author’
Author: Jimmie
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: prison, sex, death, life
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2005-01-18
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595339301
ISBN-13: 9780595339303
What is life, death and sex all about behind prison walls? Do men actually fall in love with other men? How prevalent are beatings or death? There are three laws to follow in prison, free world law and the prison’s and prisoner’s laws.
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Keywords: diary, prison
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0330418599
ISBN-13: 9780330418591
DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM ’The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I’ve been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria
Author: Dorothy Rowe
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: prison, way, depression
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-07-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 158391286X
ISBN-13: 9781583912867
First published in 1983 when it won the MIND Book of the Year Award, this best-selling book has help thousands of people leave behind the prison of depression. Dorothy Rowe gives depressed people a way of understanding their depression, which matches their experience and enables them to take charge of their life and change it. She shows that depression is not an illness or a mental disorder, but a defense against pain and fear, which we can be used whenever we suffer a disaster and discover that our life is not what we thought it was. Depression is an unwanted consequence of how we see oursel
Author: Renford Reese
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Keywords: race, prison
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1594601836
ISBN-13: 9781594601835
This book is written primarily for those members of the public - including lawmakers - who might be unaware of the damage wrought on U.S. society by decades of counterproductive criminal justice policies. In these pages, two fundamental questions are addressed: Why have lawmakers embraced counterproductive criminal justice policies? What have been the consequences of these policies? Prison Race is a double entendre. During the past two decades in the U.S., there has been a move toward incarceration, and one group in particular has been impacted by discriminatory and unjust corrections polic
