Author: David G. Morris
Publisher: David G. Morris
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The stories in The Hideous Truth About Prison mostly took place in the prison pictured above, now called Menard Correctional Center and previously known as Menard State Penitentiary. The stories in this book are true and except where noted, real names are used. In the book, David G. Morris answers the question: What's it really like inside a maximum security prison? You will learn a lot in these pages and meet many unforgettable people. You'll feel sad at times, and at other times you'll laugh out loud. Sometimes you'll seethe with anger, others you'll cringe, horrified. What's it like in prison? Well, it's not like in the movies. Want to know the Hideous Truth? Then, read this book.
The Hideous Truth About Prison
Author: David G. Morris
Publisher: David G. Morris
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The stories in The Hideous Truth About Prison mostly took place in the prison pictured above, now called Menard Correctional Center and previously known as Menard State Penitentiary. The stories in this book are true and except where noted, real names are used. In the book, David G. Morris answers the question: What's it really like inside a maximum security prison? You will learn a lot in these pages and meet many unforgettable people. You'll feel sad at times, and at other times you'll laugh out loud. Sometimes you'll seethe with anger, others you'll cringe, horrified. What's it like in prison? Well, it's not like in the movies. Want to know the Hideous Truth? Then, read this book.
Publisher: David G. Morris
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The stories in The Hideous Truth About Prison mostly took place in the prison pictured above, now called Menard Correctional Center and previously known as Menard State Penitentiary. The stories in this book are true and except where noted, real names are used. In the book, David G. Morris answers the question: What's it really like inside a maximum security prison? You will learn a lot in these pages and meet many unforgettable people. You'll feel sad at times, and at other times you'll laugh out loud. Sometimes you'll seethe with anger, others you'll cringe, horrified. What's it like in prison? Well, it's not like in the movies. Want to know the Hideous Truth? Then, read this book.
Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton
Author: T. M. Hoy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616086882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyesof an American locked up...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616086882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyesof an American locked up...
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Fourth City
Author: Doran Larson
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628950196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the authors’ efforts at self-help, the institutional resistance such efforts meet at nearly every turn, and the impact, in money and lives, that this resistance has on the public. Directly confronting the images of prisons and prisoners manufactured by popular media, so-called reality TV, and for-profit local and national news sources, Fourth City recognizes American prisoners as our primary, frontline witnesses to the dysfunction of the largest prison system on earth. Filled with deeply personal stories of coping, survival, resistance, and transformation, Fourth City should be read by every American who believes that law should achieve order in the cause of justice rather than at its cost.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628950196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the authors’ efforts at self-help, the institutional resistance such efforts meet at nearly every turn, and the impact, in money and lives, that this resistance has on the public. Directly confronting the images of prisons and prisoners manufactured by popular media, so-called reality TV, and for-profit local and national news sources, Fourth City recognizes American prisoners as our primary, frontline witnesses to the dysfunction of the largest prison system on earth. Filled with deeply personal stories of coping, survival, resistance, and transformation, Fourth City should be read by every American who believes that law should achieve order in the cause of justice rather than at its cost.
Inside Rikers
Author: Jennifer Wynn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312291587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Describes the world's largest and most expensive correctional facility, offers an incisive portrait of its more than eighteen thousand inmates and the individuals who work there, and discusses the changes that have transformed the jail.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312291587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Describes the world's largest and most expensive correctional facility, offers an incisive portrait of its more than eighteen thousand inmates and the individuals who work there, and discusses the changes that have transformed the jail.
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
This Life
Author: Quntos KunQuest
Publisher: Agate Publishing
ISBN: 1572848480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed therein, and the poetry that even those in the most dire places can create. Lil Chris is just nineteen when he arrives at Angola as an AU—an admitting unit, a fresh fish, a new vict. He’s got a life sentence with no chance of parole, but he’s also got a clear mind and sharp awareness—one that picks up quickly on the details of the system, his fellow inmates, and what he can do to claim a place at the top. When he meets Rise, a mature inmate who's already spent years in the system, and whose composure and raised consciousness command the respect of the other prisoners, Lil Chris learns to find his way in a system bent on repressing every means he has to express himself. Lil Chris and Rise channel their questions, frustrations, and pain into rap, and This Life flows with the same cadence that powers their charged verses. It pulses with the heat of impassioned inmates, the oppressive daily routines of the prison yard, and the rap contests that bring the men of the prison together. This Life is told in a voice that only a man who’s lived it could have—a clipped, urgent, evocative voice that surges with anger, honesty, playfulness, and a deep sense of ugly history. Angola started out as a plantation—and as This Life makes clear, black inmates are still in a kind of enslavement there. This Life is an important debut that commands our attention with the vigor, dynamism, and raw, consciousness-expanding energy of this essential new voice.
Publisher: Agate Publishing
ISBN: 1572848480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary. This marks the appearance of a bold, distinctive new voice, one deeply inflected by hiphop, that delves into the meaning of a life spent behind bars, the human bonds formed therein, and the poetry that even those in the most dire places can create. Lil Chris is just nineteen when he arrives at Angola as an AU—an admitting unit, a fresh fish, a new vict. He’s got a life sentence with no chance of parole, but he’s also got a clear mind and sharp awareness—one that picks up quickly on the details of the system, his fellow inmates, and what he can do to claim a place at the top. When he meets Rise, a mature inmate who's already spent years in the system, and whose composure and raised consciousness command the respect of the other prisoners, Lil Chris learns to find his way in a system bent on repressing every means he has to express himself. Lil Chris and Rise channel their questions, frustrations, and pain into rap, and This Life flows with the same cadence that powers their charged verses. It pulses with the heat of impassioned inmates, the oppressive daily routines of the prison yard, and the rap contests that bring the men of the prison together. This Life is told in a voice that only a man who’s lived it could have—a clipped, urgent, evocative voice that surges with anger, honesty, playfulness, and a deep sense of ugly history. Angola started out as a plantation—and as This Life makes clear, black inmates are still in a kind of enslavement there. This Life is an important debut that commands our attention with the vigor, dynamism, and raw, consciousness-expanding energy of this essential new voice.
Dirty Nasty Truth
Author: John Barrett Hawkins
Publisher: Penitentiary Fitness Publishing
ISBN: 9780979171826
Category : Didactic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
While incarcerated at R.J. Donovan State Prison in San Diego, John Barrett Hawkins participated in the youth intervention program named "Convicts Reaching Out To People" (CROP). At CROP prisoners worked to help transform the lives of at-risk youth who were brought into the prison by police officers, parents and local schools. CROP was founded on the belief that the most effective way to deter delinquency is through story-telling. It is a public speaking forum where prisoners give personal testimonies concerning the crimes they committed and the lessons learned. The convicts also speak about other pertinent subjects including choices, gangs, drug use, self-esteem and life in prison. As a member of CROP at Donovan, Hawkins witnessed remarkable turnarounds in teens who were on a path of criminality. Hawkins realized that CROP provided a genuine opportunity for him to make amends for his past criminal activities. It was morally self-evident that he should use the story of the crime he committed and all the people he had hurt as a means of deterring others from breaking the law. Hawkins listened closely and took notes when the other CROP members gave their personal testimonies. The prisoners spoke to the groups of kids with raw honesty about the shameful crimes they committed. They were adept at revealing lessons that could only be learned through painful retrospect. Invariably, something traumatic occurred during each inmate's childhood - bullying, peer rejection, parental abuse, etc. - which resulted in their developing low self-esteem. As the convicts discussed the root causes of their criminality and the terrible things they endured as kids, the teens in attendance became conscious of pain that was fueling their own raw emotions and poor behavior. From this point of recognition real change as possible in those teenagers. At the CROP presentations Hawkins frequently interacted with the juvenile justice police officers and school teachers. They were evangelistic about the program's ability to transform the lives of teens that were making poor choices and getting into trouble with the law. One day Hawkins was speaking with a school administrator named Ms. Williams who remarked, "I wish I had a book with all of the CROP member's stories in it for the students I couldn't bring today." Hawkins took the idea and ran with it. The result is The Dirty Nasty Truth. In this book, Hawkins tells 18 true crime stories that reveal lessons for deterring delinquency
Publisher: Penitentiary Fitness Publishing
ISBN: 9780979171826
Category : Didactic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
While incarcerated at R.J. Donovan State Prison in San Diego, John Barrett Hawkins participated in the youth intervention program named "Convicts Reaching Out To People" (CROP). At CROP prisoners worked to help transform the lives of at-risk youth who were brought into the prison by police officers, parents and local schools. CROP was founded on the belief that the most effective way to deter delinquency is through story-telling. It is a public speaking forum where prisoners give personal testimonies concerning the crimes they committed and the lessons learned. The convicts also speak about other pertinent subjects including choices, gangs, drug use, self-esteem and life in prison. As a member of CROP at Donovan, Hawkins witnessed remarkable turnarounds in teens who were on a path of criminality. Hawkins realized that CROP provided a genuine opportunity for him to make amends for his past criminal activities. It was morally self-evident that he should use the story of the crime he committed and all the people he had hurt as a means of deterring others from breaking the law. Hawkins listened closely and took notes when the other CROP members gave their personal testimonies. The prisoners spoke to the groups of kids with raw honesty about the shameful crimes they committed. They were adept at revealing lessons that could only be learned through painful retrospect. Invariably, something traumatic occurred during each inmate's childhood - bullying, peer rejection, parental abuse, etc. - which resulted in their developing low self-esteem. As the convicts discussed the root causes of their criminality and the terrible things they endured as kids, the teens in attendance became conscious of pain that was fueling their own raw emotions and poor behavior. From this point of recognition real change as possible in those teenagers. At the CROP presentations Hawkins frequently interacted with the juvenile justice police officers and school teachers. They were evangelistic about the program's ability to transform the lives of teens that were making poor choices and getting into trouble with the law. One day Hawkins was speaking with a school administrator named Ms. Williams who remarked, "I wish I had a book with all of the CROP member's stories in it for the students I couldn't bring today." Hawkins took the idea and ran with it. The result is The Dirty Nasty Truth. In this book, Hawkins tells 18 true crime stories that reveal lessons for deterring delinquency
Parliamentary Debates
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: Victoria. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description