Author: Emily Baxter (Attorney)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999209004
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
One in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history. These are their stories.We Are All Criminals combines criminal justice statistics and statutes with compelling photography and first-person narrative to personalize the destruction caused by decades of mass criminalization, while leaving the reader with a sense of hope and inspiration to affect change.From the pediatrician who blew up a porta potty to the chiefs of police who burglarized a liquor warehouse to the countless students who smoked and sold pot, this 279 page photo-packed book is filled with stories of people who got away with crimes--and parallel stories of people laboring under the stigma of a criminal record. It's an examination of criminality, privilege, punishment, and second chances. Woven throughout is incisive commentary on the havoc our carceral state has wreaked upon the nation; the disparate impact of our legal system on poor communities and communities of color; and the exploration of innumerable life barriers created by criminal and juvenile records.
All My Friends Are Felons
Author: Mark Hugentobler
Publisher: Willow
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After his long and successful career as a coach and a high school administrator, Mark Hugentobler was "sentenced" to prison by his local school board. He became academy principal within the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah. Arriving at the "Island of Misfit Toys" he soon recognized that his perceptions of the prison system were completely inaccurate. He found a world without hope. He came to realize that the Department of Corrections was not, as most people think, doing all they could to help "correct" inmates. It became clear that the system was dysfunctional and was in fact helping inmates become better criminals rather than helping them become better people. He came to realize that most of those incarcerated there would readily receive help and wanted to change but could only do so by exercising extreme personal effort, overcoming countless obstacles present in the current system. He soon identified the vast, unexplored opportunities to help inmates: providing hope and purpose through education. He also gained the viewpoint of seeing prison life through an inmate's eye, realizing the true story of life behind bars. During his eight years "down" he saw enrollment in the prison academy jump from 200 to nearly 1,200 students and enacted, firsthand, a model of the change that is possible in a broken system. If only someone would listen.
Publisher: Willow
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After his long and successful career as a coach and a high school administrator, Mark Hugentobler was "sentenced" to prison by his local school board. He became academy principal within the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah. Arriving at the "Island of Misfit Toys" he soon recognized that his perceptions of the prison system were completely inaccurate. He found a world without hope. He came to realize that the Department of Corrections was not, as most people think, doing all they could to help "correct" inmates. It became clear that the system was dysfunctional and was in fact helping inmates become better criminals rather than helping them become better people. He came to realize that most of those incarcerated there would readily receive help and wanted to change but could only do so by exercising extreme personal effort, overcoming countless obstacles present in the current system. He soon identified the vast, unexplored opportunities to help inmates: providing hope and purpose through education. He also gained the viewpoint of seeing prison life through an inmate's eye, realizing the true story of life behind bars. During his eight years "down" he saw enrollment in the prison academy jump from 200 to nearly 1,200 students and enacted, firsthand, a model of the change that is possible in a broken system. If only someone would listen.
We Are All Criminals
Author: Emily Baxter (Attorney)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999209004
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
One in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history. These are their stories.We Are All Criminals combines criminal justice statistics and statutes with compelling photography and first-person narrative to personalize the destruction caused by decades of mass criminalization, while leaving the reader with a sense of hope and inspiration to affect change.From the pediatrician who blew up a porta potty to the chiefs of police who burglarized a liquor warehouse to the countless students who smoked and sold pot, this 279 page photo-packed book is filled with stories of people who got away with crimes--and parallel stories of people laboring under the stigma of a criminal record. It's an examination of criminality, privilege, punishment, and second chances. Woven throughout is incisive commentary on the havoc our carceral state has wreaked upon the nation; the disparate impact of our legal system on poor communities and communities of color; and the exploration of innumerable life barriers created by criminal and juvenile records.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999209004
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
One in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history. These are their stories.We Are All Criminals combines criminal justice statistics and statutes with compelling photography and first-person narrative to personalize the destruction caused by decades of mass criminalization, while leaving the reader with a sense of hope and inspiration to affect change.From the pediatrician who blew up a porta potty to the chiefs of police who burglarized a liquor warehouse to the countless students who smoked and sold pot, this 279 page photo-packed book is filled with stories of people who got away with crimes--and parallel stories of people laboring under the stigma of a criminal record. It's an examination of criminality, privilege, punishment, and second chances. Woven throughout is incisive commentary on the havoc our carceral state has wreaked upon the nation; the disparate impact of our legal system on poor communities and communities of color; and the exploration of innumerable life barriers created by criminal and juvenile records.
Felon: Poems
Author: Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652157
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652157
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.
Three Felonies a Day
Author: Harvey Silverglate
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035229
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035229
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
Education of a Felon
Author: Edward Bunker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312280765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Edward Bunker chronicles the experiences he has had that help inspire him when writing his popular crime novels.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312280765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Edward Bunker chronicles the experiences he has had that help inspire him when writing his popular crime novels.
The Friends' Library
Author: William Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Friend
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account
Author: James Revel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indentured servants
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indentured servants
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends
Author: William Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Autobiography ... with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries
Author: Leigh Hunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description