Author: Thomas Mott Osborne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Within Prison Walls
Author: Thomas Mott Osborne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Behind Prison Walls
Author: Tom Martin
Publisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581603910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you want to know what today's murderers, gangbangers and street predators are really like, take a step behind prison walls. A veteran prison guard reveals the truth behind staff rivalries, incarcerated killers, old-time cons, racial tension, inmate threats and ingenuity, and the darker sides of prisoner behavior.
Publisher: Paladin Press
ISBN: 9781581603910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you want to know what today's murderers, gangbangers and street predators are really like, take a step behind prison walls. A veteran prison guard reveals the truth behind staff rivalries, incarcerated killers, old-time cons, racial tension, inmate threats and ingenuity, and the darker sides of prisoner behavior.
Walls and Bars
Author: Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.
Beyond Prison Walls
Author: Marian D. Bomm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concentration camps
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concentration camps
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Living Inside Prison Walls
Author: Victoria R. DeRosia
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Are advantaged offenders defenceless against the harshness of prison life? Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders, this book challenges the special sensitivity hypothesis and concludes that these offenders adjust well to incarceration.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Are advantaged offenders defenceless against the harshness of prison life? Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders, this book challenges the special sensitivity hypothesis and concludes that these offenders adjust well to incarceration.
Behind the Walls
Author: Jorge Antonio Renaud
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411527
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Written by a Texas inmate trained as a reporter, this book gives practical advice on how inmates live, eat, play, work, and die in the Texas prison system. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice--what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. "While the book is meant to be a primer for those with loved ones in prison, it should be required reading for any attorney involved in criminal law."--Texas Lawyer de Novo Magazine
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411527
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Written by a Texas inmate trained as a reporter, this book gives practical advice on how inmates live, eat, play, work, and die in the Texas prison system. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice--what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. "While the book is meant to be a primer for those with loved ones in prison, it should be required reading for any attorney involved in criminal law."--Texas Lawyer de Novo Magazine
Behind These Prison Walls
Author: Lorenzo Steele, Jr.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540459978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Behind These Prison Walls "Life Inside Rikers Island" gives a photographic journey into the nation's most violent adolescent jail on Rikers Island. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist gives viewers a first-hand account into the horrors and dangers officers and detainees were subjected to daily. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist Lorenzo Steele Jr. uses art as a medium to change habits and behaviors that can lead to criminal activity. Lorenzo served 12 years as an officer on Rikers Island (1987-1999) and his mission through the arts is to deter youth from making choices and decisions that can have a devastating effect on their lives. It's an educational book that's grade appropriate and can be used in public-schools, churches, colleges and art galleries.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540459978
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Behind These Prison Walls "Life Inside Rikers Island" gives a photographic journey into the nation's most violent adolescent jail on Rikers Island. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist gives viewers a first-hand account into the horrors and dangers officers and detainees were subjected to daily. Former New York City Corrections officer and visual artist Lorenzo Steele Jr. uses art as a medium to change habits and behaviors that can lead to criminal activity. Lorenzo served 12 years as an officer on Rikers Island (1987-1999) and his mission through the arts is to deter youth from making choices and decisions that can have a devastating effect on their lives. It's an educational book that's grade appropriate and can be used in public-schools, churches, colleges and art galleries.
Transgender Behind Prison Walls
Author: Sarah Jane Baker
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1909976458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
After explaining ‘What is transgender?’ this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access it to practical suggestions about clothing, wigs and hairpieces, make-up and coming out, the book also deals with such matters as change of name, gender identity clinics, hormones, medication and use of prison showers and toilets. Covering the entire transition process the book contains contributions from a number of transgender prisoners as well as extracts from reports showing how those in transition still tend to attract a negative portrayal. Also included are the special security implications of related procedures and descriptions of the attitudes to transgender inmates of other prisoners and staff. It contains a number of appendices dealing with the latest 2016 HM Prison Service Instruction on transgender prisoners and a range of support mechanisms including a list of specialists in the field and other useful reference sources and contacts. It also contains Sarah Jane Baker’s account of her own male-to-female transition and the difficulties she has faced behind bars. The first book of its kind. Written by a transgender life-sentence prisoner. Includes key extracts from official publications. With a graphic account of the author’s own transition journey. Contains practical information and tips. Reviews ‘An important contribution to current debates on the treatment of transgender prisoners’— Mia Harris, Oxford University. ‘I was heartbroken. It felt like a bereavement. The young man I had come to love as a son had disappeared overnight, and been replaced by a girl who was not my daughter, but, I felt, a stranger’— Pam Stockwell (From the Foreword)
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1909976458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
After explaining ‘What is transgender?’ this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access it to practical suggestions about clothing, wigs and hairpieces, make-up and coming out, the book also deals with such matters as change of name, gender identity clinics, hormones, medication and use of prison showers and toilets. Covering the entire transition process the book contains contributions from a number of transgender prisoners as well as extracts from reports showing how those in transition still tend to attract a negative portrayal. Also included are the special security implications of related procedures and descriptions of the attitudes to transgender inmates of other prisoners and staff. It contains a number of appendices dealing with the latest 2016 HM Prison Service Instruction on transgender prisoners and a range of support mechanisms including a list of specialists in the field and other useful reference sources and contacts. It also contains Sarah Jane Baker’s account of her own male-to-female transition and the difficulties she has faced behind bars. The first book of its kind. Written by a transgender life-sentence prisoner. Includes key extracts from official publications. With a graphic account of the author’s own transition journey. Contains practical information and tips. Reviews ‘An important contribution to current debates on the treatment of transgender prisoners’— Mia Harris, Oxford University. ‘I was heartbroken. It felt like a bereavement. The young man I had come to love as a son had disappeared overnight, and been replaced by a girl who was not my daughter, but, I felt, a stranger’— Pam Stockwell (From the Foreword)
Seven Doors in
Author: Beth Rondeau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612545141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Educator Beth Rondeau shares her personal account of her experiences teaching in a high security prison over the course of three years. Behind a total of seven locked doors, her students awaited her instruction every day. Beth's story reveals not only what she was able to teach her students, but what they were able to teach her. In many ways Beth was the student within those walls, and left the experinece with expanded knowledge, awareness, and compassion for fellow humans, and with renewed hope for the future.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612545141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Educator Beth Rondeau shares her personal account of her experiences teaching in a high security prison over the course of three years. Behind a total of seven locked doors, her students awaited her instruction every day. Beth's story reveals not only what she was able to teach her students, but what they were able to teach her. In many ways Beth was the student within those walls, and left the experinece with expanded knowledge, awareness, and compassion for fellow humans, and with renewed hope for the future.
If Prison Walls Could Speak
Author: Richard Wurmbrand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882643052
Category : Faith and reason
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and torture can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond--and remaining unbroken" -- Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882643052
Category : Faith and reason
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and torture can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond--and remaining unbroken" -- Back cover.