Author: Mark Mosley
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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As one of just sixty-one people on the planet with hyperthymesia, 17-year-old Jhalon never forgets anything. Literally. Give him any date, and he can recite his entire day to the smallest detail. But all he wants to do is live in the moment, be the first person in his family to graduate high school, and find the courage to ask out the girl he's always loved.Then, in a split-second decision to save his brother, Jhalon takes the fall for a crime he doesn't commit. Assuming he'll only be sent to juvie, Jhalon is dismayed after he's tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison with grown men. Just when he doesn't think things could get any worse, Jhalon is shipped off to the secret government-owned island inhabited and run by convicts.While deciding what murderers to trust and which ones want to bury him alive, Jhalon learns a secret about the island--a secret tied to his brother's crime. But if Jhalon is going to save him again, he'll have to make allies with murderers and find a way off Convict Island.
Author: Colleen Frakes
Publisher: Zest Books ™
ISBN: 1541581954
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the US, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including Colleen Frakes' when she was growing up. Colleen's parents—like nearly everyone else on the island—both worked in the prison, where her father was the prison's captain and her mother worked in security. The island functioned as a "company town," where housing was assigned based on rank, and even children's actions could have an impact on a family's livelihood: If you broke a rule, your family could be kicked out of their home. In the graphic memoir Prison Island, Colleen tells her story of growing up on the McNeil Island. Beyond the irregularities of living in a company town near a prison, remote island life posed other challenges to Colleen and her sister. Regular teenage activities like ordering a pizza or going to the movies became extremely complicated endeavors on the island, and the small-town dynamics were amplified by their isolation from surrounding cities. Prison Island tells the story of a typical girl growing up in atypical circumstances using stark, engaging graphic novel panels. It's a story that is simultaneously familiar and foreign, and readers will be surprised to see parts of themselves in Colleen's unique experience.
Author: Blair Niles
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Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350000698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Leicester. Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies builds on specific regional archives and literatures to write the first global history of penal transportation. The essays explore the idea of penal transportation as an engine of global change, in which political repression and forced labour combined to produce long-term impacts on economy, society and identity. They investigate the varied and interconnected routes convicts took to penal sites across the world, and the relationship of these convict flows to other forms of punishment, unfree labour, military service and indigenous incarceration. They also explore the lived worlds of convicts, including work, culture, religion and intimacy, and convict experience and agency.
Author: Satadru Sen
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Penal Colony In The Andaman Islands Was A Self Contained Colonial Society. This Book Chronicles Those Tumultous Years.
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714545619
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
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Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Author: Vagabond
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Category : Blackbirding
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108888569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
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Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies, and remote inland and border regions over a period of five centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building, and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions. Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour bondage, including enslavement, with convicts a key source of unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in various forms, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary knowledge production.
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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