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Author: Nicholas Showers-Glover Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 280
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Step into a world behind the walls of a maximum-security prison, where an unlikely allyship between three people who are supposed to be sworn enemies unfolds into something greater: a revolutionary movement for the American prison system. In this completely true life story, a former correctional officer of 14 years, a prisoner doing time for murder, and a former victim of violent crime, reveal with candid honesty how they found themselves seeing eye-to-eye and coming together in the shared desire to push for restorative justice and true correction in correctional facilities, from all sides -ultimately co-writing this book with the hopes that society will begin to see the urgent need for huge changes in America's prison system. Whether you've had any experience with the prison system or not, or are intrigued by prison reform, the story of this unique partnership will give you an eye-opening and human look not only at how the prison system works, but at how beliefs are built and broken down. See how time, observation, and reflection forces each of the authors to take a hard look at what they believe and experience the triumphs and struggles they both navigate in holding fast to some of those beliefs-and completely dismantling others. Get an inside perspective into how they each ultimately decide to climb out of the "prisoner" or "prison guard" or "victim" boxes and find common ground in a shared commitment for change. Discover what made all of them rebel against the system at the risk of alienation, or worse, from their peers in their quest for this change. And most importantly, understand the why and how behind their case for ground- breaking reform. Bring your open mind and curiosity to this book and walk away with a nuanced awareness of the hidden sides of the American prison system and what can be done to make it better.
Author: Nicholas Showers-Glover Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
Step into a world behind the walls of a maximum-security prison, where an unlikely allyship between three people who are supposed to be sworn enemies unfolds into something greater: a revolutionary movement for the American prison system. In this completely true life story, a former correctional officer of 14 years, a prisoner doing time for murder, and a former victim of violent crime, reveal with candid honesty how they found themselves seeing eye-to-eye and coming together in the shared desire to push for restorative justice and true correction in correctional facilities, from all sides -ultimately co-writing this book with the hopes that society will begin to see the urgent need for huge changes in America's prison system. Whether you've had any experience with the prison system or not, or are intrigued by prison reform, the story of this unique partnership will give you an eye-opening and human look not only at how the prison system works, but at how beliefs are built and broken down. See how time, observation, and reflection forces each of the authors to take a hard look at what they believe and experience the triumphs and struggles they both navigate in holding fast to some of those beliefs-and completely dismantling others. Get an inside perspective into how they each ultimately decide to climb out of the "prisoner" or "prison guard" or "victim" boxes and find common ground in a shared commitment for change. Discover what made all of them rebel against the system at the risk of alienation, or worse, from their peers in their quest for this change. And most importantly, understand the why and how behind their case for ground- breaking reform. Bring your open mind and curiosity to this book and walk away with a nuanced awareness of the hidden sides of the American prison system and what can be done to make it better.
Author: Shane Bauer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735223602 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Author: Brett Story Publisher: ISBN: 9781517906887 Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE Languages : en Pages : 232
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"Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property, work, gender and race-enacted across various spatial forms and landscapes within American life"--
Author: Staughton Lynd Publisher: PM Press ISBN: 1604865350 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”
Author: Melanie G. Snyder Publisher: ISBN: 9780871781284 Category : Prisoners Languages : en Pages : 286
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"Tells the story of Marie Hamilton and her volunteer work in the Pennsylvania prison system. For more than thirty years, Marie used principles of nonviolence and restorative justice to create unique programs for inmates"--Provided by publisher.
Author: William J. Drummond Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520298365 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
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San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
Author: Tom Murtagh OBE Publisher: Waterside Press ISBN: 1909976555 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 833
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The Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn in the partisan conflict that was Northern Ireland. There followed a breakdown of norms, values and control as the last of these shifted from Governors to Ministers, outside officials and even prisoners. This led to the (often random) killing of prison officers and countless allegations, denials and obfuscations, as Prison Rules came into conflict with claims to be treated as prisoners-of-war or be given Special Category status. A social document par excellence, this stark slant on The Troubles and Peace Process cuts through the propaganda and base politics to reveal the truth about the H-Blocks, hunger-strikes, escapes and power struggles. Based on actual records and personal accounts, it challenges myths and legends to warn how easily a community can descend into what the author calls anomie. An invaluable record of ‘One of the most dangerous prisons in the world’. 'A must read for those interested in the legacy of our troubled past—Tom Murtagh restores the balance, exposes the truth and gives a unique insight into the mind-set of the terrorist godfathers incarcerated in the Maze'-- The Rt Hon Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP 'This book gives an accurate account of events as I recall them'-- John Semple, Former Deputy Director of Operations, Northern Ireland Prison Service 'This is an important book'-- Phillip Wheatley, former Director, National Offender Management Service
Author: Arthur Longworth Publisher: ISBN: 9780997029901 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 186
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Zek is the story of Jonny: a man broken off and doing time in an eastern Washington state prison. Zek lays bare the brutality of a life spent behind bars. It is naked. It is ugly. And it is beautiful.
Author: Neil Samworth Publisher: Pan ISBN: 9781509883554 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. here, he tells his shocking and at times darkly funny account of life in a high security prison. Sam tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He averts a Christmas Day riot after turkey is taken off the menu and replaced by fish curry, and stands up to officers who abuse their position. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalisation and the drugs flooding our prisons.
Author: Nigel Poor Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0593238885 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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A “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle “A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast and all those who seek to understand crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in America.”—Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison. Initially drawn to each other by their shared interest in storytelling, neither had podcast production experience when they decided to enter Radiotopia’s contest for new shows . . . and won. Using the prize for seed money, Nigel and Earlonne launched Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for “eavesdropping.” It was the first podcast created and produced entirely within prison and would go on to be heard millions of times worldwide, garner Peabody and Pulitzer award nominations, and help earn Earlonne his freedom when his sentence was commuted in 2018. In This Is Ear Hustle, Nigel and Earlonne share their own stories of how they came to San Quentin, how they created their phenomenally popular podcast amid extreme limitations, and what has kept them collaborating season after season. They present new stories, all with the same insight, balance, and rapport that distinguish the podcast. In an era when more than two million people are incarcerated across the United States—a number that grows by 600,000 annually—Nigel and Earlonne explore the full and often surprising realities of prison life. With characteristic candor and humor, their moving portrayals include unexpected moments of self-discovery, unlikely alliances, inspirational resilience, and ingenious work-arounds. One personal narrative at a time, framed by Nigel’s and Earlonne’s distinct perspectives, This Is Ear Hustle reveals the complexity of life for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people while illuminating the shared experiences of humanity that unite us all.
Author: Nicholas Showers-Glover
Author: Nicholas Showers-Glover
Author: Shane Bauer
Author: Brett Story
Author: Staughton Lynd
Author: Melanie G. Snyder
Author: William J. Drummond
Author: Tom Murtagh OBE
Author: Arthur Longworth
Author: Neil Samworth
Author: Nigel Poor