Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The gray notebook. The penitentiary
Author: Roger Martin Du GardThe gray notebook. The penitentiary
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The gray notebook. The penitentiary
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The springtime of life
Author: Roger Martin Du GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Down in the Chapel
Author: Joshua DublerPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146683711X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.
Thin Gray Line Diary: Correctional Officers Notebook, Thin Gray Line Diary, Prison Guard Journal, Correctional Officer Notebook, 6 X 9 Journ
Author: Noteworthy PublicationsPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781795690539
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Write down important notes, meetings and appointments in this thin gray line notebook. Space for the date or a title at the top of each page. Great gift for heroic Correctional Officers and their families. Honoring our correctional officers, this Thin Gray Line notebook is perfect for all prison guards, their family and friends.
Newjack
Author: Ted ConoverPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400033098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing. “Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover's year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or "newjack." As he struggles to become a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, and attempts, in the face of overwhelming odds, to balance decency with toughness. Through his insights into the harsh culture of prison, the grueling and demeaning working conditions of the officers, and the unexpected ways the job encroaches on his own family life, we begin to see how our burgeoning prison system brutalizes everyone connected with it. An intimate portrait of a world few readers have ever experienced, Newjack is a haunting journey into a dark undercurrent of American life.
Thin Gray Line Diary: Thin Gray Line Diary, Correctional Officers Notebook, Prison Guard Journal, Correctional Officer Notebook, 6 X 9 Journ
Author: Noteworthy PublicationsPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781795690522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Write down important notes, meetings and appointments in this thin gray line notebook. Space for the date or a title at the top of each page. Great gift for heroic Correctional Officers and their families. Honoring our correctional officers, this Thin Gray Line notebook is perfect for all prison guards, their family and friends.
Decades Behind Bars
Author: Gaye D. HolmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476628483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind. Beginning in 1994, the author began recording the personal stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men candidly discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and to be confined for perhaps the remainder of their lives. Their stories are balanced by conversations with correctional officers, prison administrators, chaplains and parole board members. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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