Author: Keramet Reiter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention.
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Author: Keramet Reiter
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators’ discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one “supermax,” California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention.
The Whig Almanac and United States Register for ...
Author:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Tide Tables, United States and Foreign Ports
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Category : Tides
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Vol. for 1922 includes Data on currents.
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Category : Tides
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Vol. for 1922 includes Data on currents.
Current Housing Reports
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Summary
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Category : Volcanoes
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Volcanoes
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Word Concordance of the Tanakh Or the Hebrew Bible (Hebrew Old Testament)
Author: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt
Publisher: disserta Verlag
ISBN: 3959353626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
This book lists all the words and variant word forms of the original Hebrew-Aramaic Old Testament text or Tanakh (Jewish Bible) with their respective instances of occurrences in the entire text body of the Hebrew Old Testament. It also includes references to biblical book names, chapters and verses. The relevant text corpus of this word concordance is based upon scholarly respected text editions like the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Since text concordances of original texts in original biblical languages are hard to find this book tries to fill a part of that gap.
Publisher: disserta Verlag
ISBN: 3959353626
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
This book lists all the words and variant word forms of the original Hebrew-Aramaic Old Testament text or Tanakh (Jewish Bible) with their respective instances of occurrences in the entire text body of the Hebrew Old Testament. It also includes references to biblical book names, chapters and verses. The relevant text corpus of this word concordance is based upon scholarly respected text editions like the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Since text concordances of original texts in original biblical languages are hard to find this book tries to fill a part of that gap.
The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Author: United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Publisher:
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Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Includes separately issued Tables to facilitate the reduction of places of the fixed stars, published Washington, 1869.
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Category : Ephemerides
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Includes separately issued Tables to facilitate the reduction of places of the fixed stars, published Washington, 1869.
Blue Book
Author: Kenya
Publisher:
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Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
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Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (London)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
NLT Study Bible Large Print
Author: Tyndale
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496445449
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2409
Book Description
Make Your Study Personal and Your Devotions Serious. You study the Bible to connect with God's heart. The NLT Study Bible gives you the tools you need to enter the world of the Bible so you can do just that. Including over 25,000 study notes plus profiles, charts, maps, timelines, book and section introductions, and approximately 300 theme notes, the NLT Study Bible will make your study personal and your devotions serious. This new large print edition features a generous 10-point font. The New Living Translation breathes life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages, changing lives as the words speak directly to their hearts.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496445449
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 2409
Book Description
Make Your Study Personal and Your Devotions Serious. You study the Bible to connect with God's heart. The NLT Study Bible gives you the tools you need to enter the world of the Bible so you can do just that. Including over 25,000 study notes plus profiles, charts, maps, timelines, book and section introductions, and approximately 300 theme notes, the NLT Study Bible will make your study personal and your devotions serious. This new large print edition features a generous 10-point font. The New Living Translation breathes life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages, changing lives as the words speak directly to their hearts.