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OUP USA Introduction to Corrections
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The University of Chicago Press Tortured Subjects
Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of how the idea that physical suffering could be a path to redemption became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Using documents from criminal cases, it looks at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788.
£80.00
Yale University Press Cruel and Unusual
Book SynopsisSince 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the US.
£28.71
Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.
£28.00
The University of Michigan Press Is William Martinez Not Our Brother
Book SynopsisDescribes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project, a pioneering program that works with the incarcerated youth and adults of Michigan's juvenile facilities and prisons. Alexander recounts the genesis of this pragmatic and original system
£31.31
The University of Michigan Press Jurors Stories of Death
Book SynopsisFleury-Steiner draws on the experiences of white and black jurors in capital punishment trials to discuss the effect of race on the sentencing process in America. He shows how jurors rely on narratives that deny defendants their individuality and complexity, while reinforcing the jurors' own moral superiority.
£29.94
The University of Michigan Press Is William Martinez Not Our Brother
Book SynopsisDescribes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project, a pioneering program that works with the incarcerated youth and adults of Michigan's juvenile facilities and prisons. Alexander recounts the genesis of this pragmatic and original system
£70.55
Penguin Publishing Group The Highest Law in the Land
Book SynopsisShortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas PrizeA Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people’s lives, the office of sheriffs remains a gravely under-examined institution. Locally elected, largely unaccountable, and difficult to remove, the country’s over three thousand sheriffs, mostly white men, wield immense power—making arrests, running county jails, enforcing evictions and immigration laws—with a quarter of all U.S. law enforcement officers reporting to them. In recent years there&
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Diversified Publishing Prisoners of the Castle
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£24.80
Random House USA Inc The Death of Innocents
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O’Dell. Both were convicted of murder on flimsy evidence (O’Dell’s principal accuser was a jailhouse informant who later recanted his testimony). Both were executed in spite of numerous appeals. Sister Helen Prejean watched both of them die.As she recounts these men’s cases and takes us through their terrible last moments, Prejean brilliantly dismantles the legal and religious arguments that have been used to justify the death penalty. Riveting, moving, and ultimately damning, The Death of Innocents is a book we dare not ignore.
£15.30
Irish Academic Press Ltd Special Category The IRA in English Prisons Vol 2
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£65.00
Arcadia Publishing Folsom Prison Images of America Arcadia
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£21.24
Northwestern University Press Turned Inside Out Reading the Russian Novel in
Book SynopsisSteven Shankman reflects on his remarkable experience teaching texts by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Grossman, and Emmanuel Levinas in prison to a mix of university students and inmates. These persecuted writers describe ethical obligation as an experience of being turned inside out by the face-to-face encounter.
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Random House USA Inc Two Truths and a Lie
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John Wiley & Sons College in Prison Reading in an Age of Mass
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a convincing 'case for college in prison' ... carefully documenting the great many benefits that its graduates receive.... At the same time, remind[s] us how far our higher-education system has strayed from the humanistic ideals at the heart of the Bard prison project." * The New York Review of Books *"Karpowitz moves between scholarly examinations and novelistic narrative recreations of his classes that allow the students' voices (albeit filtered) to be heard ... These stories provide a fresh representation of the imprisoned, highlighting their heterogeneity and humanity and convincing the reader to fight against 'the well-meaning but insidious bigotry of low expectations.'" * Publishers Weekly *"[Karpowitz] shows pedagogical passion in his account of teaching (and learning from) imprisoned men and women, via discussions of Nietzsche, Crime and Punishment, James Baldwin and the US Constitution’s silence on slavery." * Times Higher Education *"A must-read for any educator or anyone interested in better understanding the transcendental power of higher education." * New York Journal of Books *"If you seek inspiration in these depressing times, if you need one iota of decency to keep you going, if you despair that Donald Trump's lack of humility will permeate every aspect of our culture, search no further. Read Daniel Karpowitz's stirring commitment to higher education in prisons." * CounterPunch *"From its first gripping anecdote to its concluding reflections about inequality, College in Prison is a compelling, deeply moving, and urgently important book. Daniel Karpowitz makes a powerful argument for real liberal education (not therapy) in prisons, and he challenges all of us who sit in elite institutions to do much more for non-elite students. In the process, he offers an unforgettable account of what a real liberal education is and how it interacts with our flawed society." -- Martha Nussbaum * Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Univ. of Chicago, bestselling author *"Drawing on more than a decade of work with the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz gives us a thoughtful and timely perspective on mass incarceration in America, and the promise of a liberal arts education for those behind bars. College in Prison should be required reading for academics and policymakers alike." -- Neera Tanden * President & CEO, Center for American Progress *"For more than a decade, incarcerated men and women—with their 'Ivory Tower' allies—have been building elite private colleges in the prison systems of New York and other states. Daniel Karpowitz details their collective struggles, and, in doing so, he rediscovers the great social promise of the liberal arts." -- Craig Steven Wilder * author of Ebony & Ivy *"The story of the Bard Prison Initiative is a symbol of hope in the era of mass incarceration. Daniel Karpowitz brings to life the men in this innovative program, who remind us how powerful education can be in our lives." -- Marc Mauer * Executive Director, The Sentencing Project and author of Race to Incarcerate *"In gripping detail, Karpowitz offers a human-driven account of efforts to reestablish higher education in America's prisons. Along the way, we're faced with the moral challenge: by what right do we restrict access to the country's best innovations to those who languish in its most barbarous?" -- Glenn E. Martin * Founder and President, Just Leadership USA *"College in Prison is a deeply thoughtful meditation on one of the most pressing issues related to the US mass incarceration crisis: the inimitable, invaluable power of higher education behind bars. Karpowitz approaches this vital subject with the sensitivity of a practitioner and the meticulous analysis of a scholar, producing a worthy study that speaks to hearts and minds both." -- Baz Dreisinger * author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World *"This is a book for our time. It firmly plants college access as a core aspect in the prison reform agenda and infuses that agenda with humanity and hope. Karpowitz describes the teachers and students with kindness and honesty so that we see real people struggling to breathe the life of curiosity and engagement into the soul-killing place that prison can too often be. If you care about prison reform, this book will rock you." -- Todd R. Clear * author of Imprisoning Communities *"College in Prison is an absolutely unforgettable story of how and why an ambitious program at a relatively small New York-based academic institution might hold the key to a revolutionary way of re-imagining our nation's approach to mass incarceration. Karpowitz has written a wonderfully sophisticated and moving story about his choice to devote the bulk of his adult life to a powerful project that takes prisoners and their possible futures incredibly seriously. Reading this text closely means never thinking about the implications of imprisonment quite the same way again." -- John L. Jackson, Jr. * Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania *"Using his fascinating experiences with the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz presents a refreshing take on pressing academic and social questions. This is an important story to tell." -- Joshua M. Price * author of Prison and Social Death *"The Bard Prison Initiative has been a rare ray of light in the darkness of mass incarceration. Karpowitz's account tells its story, and turns that light to uncovering new truths about the American prison in our time." -- Jonathan S. Simon * author of Mass Incarceration on Trial *"Total praise for College in Prison! Karpowitz provides an argument that education helps to relieve the harm caused by incarceration. This work delivers an intimate glimpse into the hearts and minds of those for whom critical thinking has become salvation." -- Vivian Nixon * Executive Director, College and Community Fellowship *"This gripping firsthand account of progressive pedagogy in prison at the height of mass incarceration by a dedicated scholar-activist and gifted educator is a truly inspiring and practical call to action to undo the brutality of our nation's lock-down." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio *"The College that Enters Prison in Transformed" by Sonya Postentier interview with Daniel Karpowitz * Public Books *"College Campuses Should Not Be Safe Spaces," by Jonathan Zimmerman * Chronicle of Higher Education *"New Walz recruit aims to expand college in Minnesota prisons" by Stephen Montemayor http://www.startribune.com/new-walz-recruit-aims-to-expand-college-in-minnesota-prisons/514352992/ * Minneapolis Star Tribune *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Text 1Getting In: The Politics of College in Prison 2Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration 3Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment 4The First Graduation: Figures of Speech 5Replication and Conclusions: Why and How College in Prison Index
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The New York Review of Books, Inc A Handbook On Hanging New York Review Books
Book SynopsisA Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.
£16.19
CT3Media, Inc. Athiesm Destroys
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Flatiron Books Correction
Book SynopsisNYT EDITOR''S CHOICE WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION OF 2023 FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice systemthrough the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just MercyCorrection ranks among the very best books on life inside and outside of prison I have ever read. ?Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted Correction provides a revelatory lens for examining mass incarceration. The Washington Post A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: Chicago Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune, The Next Big Idea ClubThe United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world's incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichéspaying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the timethere is little sense colle
£22.50
Cengage Learning, Inc CommunityBased Corrections
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Legal Aspects Of Corrections
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£163.40
Arcadia Publishing The Ohio State Reformatory Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Frontier Kansas Jails Landmarks
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£18.69
University of Massachusetts Press The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison
Book SynopsisDepicting the lives of inmates at the Connecticut Correctional Institution, this is the result of three years of research among the women at the prison. Built in 1917 as a work farm for prostitutes and unwed mothers, ""The Farm"" is seen as a barometer of prevailing social attitudes towards women.
£31.98
University of Massachusetts Press Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
Book SynopsisFor more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye on ""due proceeding"" and against the backdrop of popular ambivalence about the death penalty's morality, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court understood murder to be a sin and a threat to the colony's well-being, but the Puritans also drastically reduced the crimes for which death was the prescribed penalty and expanded a capital defendant's rights. Following the Revolution, Americans denounced the death penalty as ""British and brutish"" and the state's Supreme Judicial Court embraced its role as protector of the rights extended to all men by the Massachusetts Constitution. In the 1830s popular opposition nearly stopped the machinery of death and a vote in the Massachusetts House fell just short of abolishing capital punishment.A post - Civil War effort extending civil rights to all men also stimulated significant changes in criminal procedure. A ""monster petition"" begging the governor to spare the life of a murderer convicted on slight circumstantial evidence and the grim prospect of executing nine Chinese men found guilty of murder fueled a passionate debate about the death penalty in the decade before World War I.The trials and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti focused unwanted international and national attention on Massachusetts. This was a turning point. Sara Ehrmann took charge of the newly formed Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty, relentlessly lobbied the legislature, and convinced a string of governors not to sign death warrants. In the 1970s the focus shifted to the courts, and eventually, in 1980, the Supreme Judicial Court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Massachusetts Constitution.Trade ReviewThe range and depth of coverage are impressive.... The twelve chapters address key aspects of jurisprudence, such as defendant rights, the insanity issue, the right to an attorney, criminal discovery, confession, and the selection of an impartial jury.... This is masterful scholarship on an immensely important subject. - Lawrence Goodheart, author of Mad Yankees ""This book is a perfect model for any future death penalty historian - one can only hope that Rogers's successors will do for states such as Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio what he has done for Massachusetts."" - Hugo A. Bedeau, author of The Death Penalty in America
£31.95
Orbis Books (USA) Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victim Pleads
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Avery Publishing Group A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning,
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£15.30
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in U.S.
Book SynopsisToday's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement, with serious ramifications for the corrections system. ""Women Behind Bars"" offers the first comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by incarcerated women in the United States. Young and Reviere show conclusively that serving time in prisons designed by and for men not only does little to address what landed women, particularly women of color, there in the first place, but also undermines their prospects for an improved life on the outside. Using a multifaceted race/class/gender lens, the authors make a convincing argument that women in prison are punished twice: first by their sentences, and again because the policies that govern time behind bars were not designed to address women's unique problems and responsibilities.Trade ReviewThe integration of race into the discussion of women and corrections is important, particularly in the classroom. This book, unlike most, does not address the issue of race as an afterthought, but instead shows its relevance by integrating it throughout. - Stephanie Bush-Baskette, Rutgers University ""This comprehensive text is a strong contribution to the study of women and incarceration. Particularly effective in terms of its focus on race, gender, and imprisonment, it should be required reading in a wide range of courses."" - Barbara Bloom, Sonoma State University
£21.95
Lantern Books,US One Day in the Life of 179212: Notes from an
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Carolina Academic Press Rethinking the Reentry Paradigm A Blueprint for
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£34.20
Arcadia Publishing Inc. The Burlington County Prison Stories from the
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£18.69
Michigan State University Press Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!: A Brief
Book SynopsisThe final book in the groundbreaking Voices from the Underground series, Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners' Digest International, the most important prisoners' rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era. From Grant's military days in pre-Revolutionary Cuba during the Korean War, to his time as publisher of a prounion newspaper in Cedar Rapids and his eventual imprisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas, Grant's personal history is a testament to the power of courage under duress. One of the more notorious federal penitentiaries in the nation, Leavenworth inspired Grant to found PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide.
£23.36
Michigan State University Press Fighting the Death Penalty: A Fifty-Year Journey
Book SynopsisMichigan is the only state in the country that has a death penalty prohibition in its constitution - Eugene G. Wanger’s compelling arguments against capital punishment is a large reason it is there. The forty pieces in this volume are writings created or used by the author, who penned the prohibition clause, during his fifty years as a death penalty abolitionist.His extraordinary background in forensics, law, and political activity as constitutional convention delegate and co-chairman of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment has produced a remarkable collection. It is not only a fifty-year history of the anti–death penalty argument in America, it also is a detailed and challenging example of how the argument against capital punishment may be successfully made.
£40.05
Michigan State University Press Incarceration and Race in Michigan: Grounding the
Book SynopsisState and local policies are key to understanding how to reduce prison populations. This anthology of critical and personal essays about the need to reform criminal justice policies that have led to mass incarceration provides a national perspective while remaining grounded in Michigan.Major components in this volume include a focus on current research on the impact of incarceration on minority groups, youth, and the mentally ill; and a focus on research on Michigan’s leadership in the area of reentry. Changes in policy will require a change in the public’s problematic images of incarcerated people. In this volume, academic research is combined with first-person narratives and paintings from people who have been directly affected by incarceration to allow readers to form more personal connections with those who face incarceration.At a time when much of the push to reduce prison populations is focused on the financial cost to states and cities, this book emphasises the broader social and human costs of mass incarceration.
£11.97
Chicago Review Press Freeing David McCallum: The Last Miracle of Rubin
Book SynopsisFor ten years before Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum’s release. It details their many struggles, from founding an innocence project to take on the case, finding lawyers willing to work pro bono, and hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses, to the most difficult part: convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. A new district attorney willing to reexamine the case, a documentary film, and an op-ed piece in which Carter, on his deathbed, made a plea for McCallum’s release finally turned the tide of justice. Trade Review"After you read this gripping tale of a Brooklyn teenager coerced into falsely confessing and freed nearly thirty years later, you will not think about confession evidence or criminal investigations the same way." Brandon L. Garrett, author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice and Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong"I was the judge who granted a writ of habeas corpus to Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter resulting in his freedom after serving nineteen years in prison for a wrongful conviction. After his release we became friends, and he often spoke of his commitment to obtain the release of David McCallum. Freeing David McCallum is the compelling true story of the exoneration of another man wrongly convicted. His miraculous release, after twenty-nine years, demonstrates that fortunately there are those among us who will devote themselves unsparingly to freeing the innocent." Judge H. Lee Sarokin, retired
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Arcadia Publishing Inside the Ohio Penitentiary
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WW Norton & Co Cuz: An American Tragedy
Book SynopsisFirst appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen’s Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this “compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story” (New York Times), Danielle Allen—a prize-winning scholar—recounts her heroic efforts to rescue Michael Alexander Allen, her beloved baby cousin, who was arrested at fifteen for an attempted carjacking. Tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years, Michael served eleven. Three years later, he was dead. Why did this gifted young man, who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up murdered? Why did he languish in prison? And why at fifteen was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone’s car? Hailed as a “literary miracle” (Washington Post), this fierce family memoir makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.Trade Review"A literary miracle of form and content. The book pleads with us to find the moral imagination to break the American pattern of racial abuse. Allen’s ambitious, breathtaking book challenges the moral composition of the world it inhabits by telling all who listen: I loved my cousin and he loved me, and I know he’d be alive if you loved him, too." -- Kiese Laymon - Washington Post"A compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story...Among the most valuable contributions Allen makes is forcing us to ask: To what end are we locking up our children? Are we not foreclosing their options before their lives have even begun?...Allen’s analysis of gang culture—or “the parastate,” as she calls it, with its own bylaws and tragic form of appeal—may be where she’s at her ferocious best" -- Jennifer Senior - New York Times""[Cuz] address[es] issues worth pondering: how codes of masculinity constrain and cripple men, the lure of violence, the mysteries of human personality and the debts family members owe one another in dire circumstances…In writing about her cousin, Allen is also elegizing other black men victimized by poverty, drugs and unequal justice. Her blend of personal anguish and social consciousness evokes not just [John Edgar] Wideman, but Jesmyn Ward's 2013 memoir, Men We Reaped."" -- Julia M. Klein - Chicago Tribune"Allen’s memoir, Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A., is a doleful and stirring narrative of how Michael Allen Alexander’s magnetic smile slowly dimmed until he was found shot to death in the passenger seat of a car in Los Angeles…. Allen’s heartbreak gives way to a well-researched expedition." -- Otis R. Taylor, Jr. - San Francisco Chronicle"She’s rightfully angry at what happened to her cousin, but it doesn’t hide her empathy for families who endure hardship to visit their imprisoned loved ones, and it doesn’t lessen her humanity toward the people whose imprisonment doesn’t make sense. That, mixed with an aching, soaring joy are what you’ll find in 'Cuz,' and it’s going to make you think—hard. Can you afford to miss that? No, make no mistake." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer - Oakland Post"The shattering story of her young cousin…'Cuz' is a powerful family memoir and study of the criminal justice system." -- Tom Beer - Newsday"Allen, whose writing is creative and accessible, uses her finely tuned talent to fold Michael’s fate into the gathering storms of the U.S. criminal-justice system and Los Angeles’ gang-related and racial turmoil. Both a searching, personal elegy and a sure-footed lamentation of the systems meant to protect us, this is a searing must-read." -- Annie Bostrom - Booklist, Starred review"[Allen] puts a face to the numbing statistics of incarcerated young black boys and men. . . . At its heart, Allen’s book is both an outcry and entreaty as she grapples with a painful reality." -- Publishers Weekly"A literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Danielle Allen’s Cuz is an elegiac memoir and social jeremiad born out of the tragedy of mass incarceration. A loving cousin paying tribute to her brilliant and beloved but troubled 'cuz,' Allen hits a grand slam." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots"What starts as a personal memoir, an effort to resurrect from oblivion a beloved cousin who died young, modulates in Allen’s hands into a cool, reasoned, but ultimately devastating indictment of the War on Drugs and the sentencing regime it has given birth to. In plain terms, stripped of the jargon of the social sciences, she shows us what can await if you are young, black, and unlucky in today’s United States." -- J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Life and Times of Michael K"In this narrative of freedom and incarceration, education and disadvantage, rehabilitation and punishment, Danielle Allen paints an unforgettable portrait of a cousin she loved. The pacing is brisk and novelistic, but the message is large and clear: we need urgently to reform the system through which we process juveniles who commit crime, because the current system perpetuates the very injustices it was designed to address." -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree"Cuz is riveting, painfully personal, and profoundly lucid in its history telling. Allen's crystalline voice amazes despite the most bewildering behemoth topic." -- Quiara Alegría Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Water by the Spoonful
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of
Book SynopsisSend Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and unjustifiable death penalties feature as everyday occurrences in the living hells that are Bangkwang and Klong Prem jails. Sebastian Williams has graphically revealed this shocking reality through the eyes of a long-term inmate from the West who endured at first hand the unimaginable, inhuman nightmare that constitutes the Thai penal system.
£13.94
Curbstone Press,U.S. Tunnel To Canto Grande
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Adult Corrections: International Systems and
Book SynopsisIn this text, prominent resident scholars present comprehensive overviews of the adult corrections systems of Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Namibia, Romania and the US. These national profiles provide a rare comparative and international perspective on corrections trends, issues and problems. The national profiles are complemented by the editor's introduction and glossary.
£31.95
Demeter Press Looking for Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith
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£27.08
For Beginners Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners
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£12.34
Belt Publishing Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American
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The University Press of Kentucky The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's
Book SynopsisFrom 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cure for drug addiction. Although it began as a bold and ambitious public works project, and became famous as a rehabilitation center frequented by great jazz musicians among others, the Farm was shut down forty years after it opened amid scandal over its drug-testing program, which involved experiments where inmates were being used as human guinea pigs and rewarded with heroin and cocaine for their efforts.Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors, and guards that trace the Farm's noble rise and tumultuous fall, revealing the compelling story of what really happened inside the prison walls.Table of ContentsIntroduction A New Deal for the Drug Addict Competent and Humane The Two Roads to Narco The Lexington Cure The Fantastic Lodge The Talking Cure Down on the Farm Work is Therapy At Play in the Fields of Narco The Greatest Band You Never Heard The Addiction Research Center The Revolving Door Bibliography
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Bohlau Verlag Im Arrest: Zucht-, Arbeits- und Strafhäuser in
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Duncker & Humblot Imprisonment for International Crimes: An
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Der Haftlingsfreikauf Aus Der Ddr 1962/63-1989:
Book SynopsisJan Philipp WÃlbern legt die erste quellenfundierte Gesamtdarstellung zur Geschichte des HÃftlingsfreikaufs vor.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Mitteilungen Zur Christlichen Archaologie
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