Author: United States. Bureau of Prisons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Wall Is Just a Wall
Author: Reiko Hillyer
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478025883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised; and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media—in contrast to corrections officials—described the public as potential victims who required constant protection against the threat of violence. In A Wall Is Just a Wall Reiko Hillyer focuses on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits to examine the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to transcend prison boundaries. Illuminating prisoners’ lived experiences as they suffered, critiqued, survived, and resisted changing penal practices, she shows that the current impermeability of the prison is a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon. By tracking the “thickening” of prison walls, Hillyer historicizes changing ideas of risk, the growing bipartisan acceptance of permanent exile and fixing the convicted at the moment of their crime as a form of punishment, and prisoners’ efforts to resist.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478025883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised; and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media—in contrast to corrections officials—described the public as potential victims who required constant protection against the threat of violence. In A Wall Is Just a Wall Reiko Hillyer focuses on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits to examine the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to transcend prison boundaries. Illuminating prisoners’ lived experiences as they suffered, critiqued, survived, and resisted changing penal practices, she shows that the current impermeability of the prison is a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon. By tracking the “thickening” of prison walls, Hillyer historicizes changing ideas of risk, the growing bipartisan acceptance of permanent exile and fixing the convicted at the moment of their crime as a form of punishment, and prisoners’ efforts to resist.
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
Author: Andrea M. Leverentz
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813571316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs—factors that in turn shaped the women’s expectations for themselves, and others’ expectations of them. The women’s stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays. With its unique view of how society’s mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners’ lived realities, The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma shows the complexity of these women’s experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813571316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs—factors that in turn shaped the women’s expectations for themselves, and others’ expectations of them. The women’s stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays. With its unique view of how society’s mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners’ lived realities, The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma shows the complexity of these women’s experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society.
Chitty's Annual Statutes
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong Commencing with the Year 1844 ...: 1885-1887
Author: Hong Kong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Report on the Administration of the North-Western Provinces
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North-Western Provinces (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North-Western Provinces (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Spaniards in the Holocaust
Author: David Wingeate Pike
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134587120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading Nazis in the collapse of 1940. A microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, their story possesses a unique historical value. No other national group succeeded in placing its members in all the key clerical positions in the SS administration, and no other group managed to hide and save all its basic records. Vilified by Franco and condemned by Hitler, their story makes an outstanding contribution to the literature of the holocaust.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134587120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading Nazis in the collapse of 1940. A microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, their story possesses a unique historical value. No other national group succeeded in placing its members in all the key clerical positions in the SS administration, and no other group managed to hide and save all its basic records. Vilified by Franco and condemned by Hitler, their story makes an outstanding contribution to the literature of the holocaust.
Abatement-Civil service
Author: New Jersey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2114
Book Description
Compiled Statutes of New Jersey: Abatement - Civil service
Author: New Jersey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2104
Book Description
Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local, Personal, Or Temporary Character
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description