Chronicles of a Prison Dirty War: California Prison Politics, Paperback - Jr. Powell, Louis C.

Reducere. The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons al...

The Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes during The Troubles beca...

DescriptionThe Maze Prison shows how an establishment built to hold those involved in terrorism, atrocities, murder and allied crimes became a pawn...

A major voice in transnational American studies addresses politics and culture in post-9/11 America

FatherHoodlum is the captivating story of Lamont B. Moody, who grew up in a Newark, New Jersey housing project, during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. At 18...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Educ...

Reducere. The first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utt...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Claudette Spencer-NurseThis book is more than a successful love story of an attorney who fell in love, married and had a ch...

Reducere. During the winter of 1863-1864, 1, 200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of th...

An easy-to-read prison survival guide of do's and don'ts. Perfect for anyone facing trial for an offence that may lead to imprisonment, their famil...

Reducere. This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings h...

Reducere. In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil...

Reducere. The mind is our greatest tool but can turn into our worst enemy. When this happens, it can hold you back from achieving almost anything in your lif...

Reducere. Raped in Prison: A Horror StoryBy: Russell Dan SmithIn this powerful memoir, Russell Dan Smith chronicles his life as a child prisoner among adults...

Reducere. Point Lookout Prison and Hospital tells the story of the North's largest Civil War prison camp. Author Richard H. Triebe has gathered over fifty Co...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem street ...

DescriptionNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 One of President Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 Winner of the Helen Bernstein Bo...

Reducere. In the fifth instalment of this epic fantasy series, a journey south brings together nine eclectic friends and leads them ever closer to answers - ...

Reducere. While going through local 19th century newspapers online, I came across this two-installment article written in 1893 by Rev. Dr. A. W. Mangum about...

Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Reducere. DescriptionSan Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison and the nation's largest, is notorious for once holding America's most dangerous pr...

Reducere. The career of Donald "D.J." Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California's ...

Description"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, an...

Reducere. The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding ch...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Geniece Crawford MondeIllustration(s): 5 tablesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. There are two types of barriers that can hinder an excon's successful re-entry into society. There are those created by public policy and public at...

Reducere. Dirty Eddie's War is the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr., captured by way of diary entries addressed to his bel...

Reducere. Years ago, a young Jewish boy stood on a broken boat, half buried in the sand, holding a piece of bamboo he had made into a toy telescope. The boy ...

Reducere. DescriptionTrapped in the demon world, Louis, one of the most powerful sorcerers in existence, will find himself struggling with the darkness that ...

The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars-and shared be...

DescriptionAntonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is a remarkable work, not only because it was written in jail as the Italian Marxist thinker fell vic...

Reducere. Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated rel...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): D J VodickaNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. Many of us wonder what goes on inside a prison. What are the inmates like? What do they do all day? What do they talk about? Are prison inmates lik...

Reducere. Parenting From Prison was written for the incarcerated parent who is seeking to establish or grow a quality relationship with their child. Parentin...

This book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who st...

The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime...

A story about political organizing and the power of communityVal rie Plante stood up to the patriarchal power system of her city, took down an incu...

Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Ba...

This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assiz...

A highly informative account of prisons and imprisonment by a prison chaplain containing insights for people from ALL faith groups. Tells how relig...