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Book Synopsis Behind the Walls of Stateville Prison by : Fredrick McGuyer
Download or read book Behind the Walls of Stateville Prison written by Fredrick McGuyer and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following pages are a collections of short stories, told by a prison guard in a maximum security prison during the years 1970-1972 at the Joliet Correctional Facility, in Joliet, Illinois. These stories were told to family, friends, and co-workers for over thirty years. I believe these stories tell of another side of life that most people can't imagine, and I pray they never find out about.I always had this terrible need to write these stories.The stories in this book are all true but I'm not convinced they tell the whole truth, there were stories left out, that were too dark to tell. Some stories went to a place I didn't want to remember.I do know how to end these stories; and that is to say, the Good Lord watched over me; without Him, there would be not stories to tell.Love, Fredric R. McGuyer
Book Synopsis Behind the Walls by : Information Publishing
Download or read book Behind the Walls written by Information Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story. The life of a secret informant working with the Latin Kings and the State of Connecticut Correctional prison system. An arrangement gone bad.
Download or read book Inside Out written by Harry Camisa and published by Windsor Press and Publishin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big House written by Stephen D. Cox and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Big House" is America's idea of the prison - a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the "Big House" has attained in America's understanding of itself"--Jacket.
Download or read book Stateville written by James B. Jacobs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stateville James B. Jacobs, a sociologist and legal scholar, presents the first historical examination of a total prison organization—administrators, guards, prisoners, and special interest groups. Jacobs applies Edward Shils's interpretation of the dynamics of mass society in order to explain the dramatic events of the past quarter century that have permanently altered Stateville's structure. With the extension of civil rights to previously marginal groups such as racial minorities, the poor, and, ultimately, the incarcerated, prisons have moved from society's periphery toward its center. Accordingly Stateville's control mechanisms became less authoritarian and more legalistic and bureaucratic. As prisoners' rights increased, the preogatives of the staff were sharply curtailed. By the early 1970s the administration proved incapable of dealing with politicized gangs, proliferating interest groups, unionized guards, and interventionist courts. In addition to extensive archival research, Jacobs spent many months freely interacting with the prisoners, guards, and administrators at Stateville. His lucid presentation of Stateville's troubled history will provide fascinating reading for a wide audience of concerned readers. ". . . [an] impressive study of a complex social system."—Isidore Silver, Library Journal
Book Synopsis Behind Gray Walls by : Patrick Charles Murphy
Download or read book Behind Gray Walls written by Patrick Charles Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Schizophrenia by : J. Michael Mahoney
Download or read book Schizophrenia written by J. Michael Mahoney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 36 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be. The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable truth of this hypothesis. This is a fixed law of nature, unassailable and constantly operative in every case. No other species but man is afflicted with mental illness because no other species has either the intellectual power to repress their sexual feelings nor the motivation to do so. The disease we call "schizophrenia" is but an arbitrary name, which is used to designate the end-stage of a process beginning with a slight neurosis. The more severe the bisexual conflict and confusion in the individual, the more severe the degree of the mental illness which is experienced. Several other investigators in the past have reached this same conclusion, but unfortunately their wisdom went largely unheeded. Hopefully this book will remedy that ill-advised neglect.
Book Synopsis Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's South Side by : Troy Taylor
Download or read book Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's South Side written by Troy Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lurking below the Loop, behind the industry-driven energy of Chicago, lies the mysterious criminal underworld of the South Side. Recounting criminal exploits of legends like Alphonse Capone, as well as lesser-known stories like the Car Barn Bandits, Troy Taylor captures the intricacies of the most infamous stories of Chicago's South Side. From the gruesome murders committed by the unassuming H.H. Holmes to the mysterious death of Marshall Field Jr., join Taylor as he revisits the South Side's prosperous middle-class days and vividly depicts the strange and horrific crimes that have cast new light on the character of these too often overlooked neighborhoods.
Book Synopsis True Crime: Illinois by : Troy Taylor
Download or read book True Crime: Illinois written by Troy Taylor and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview of crime in the state and then focuses on its headline stories.
Book Synopsis Behind the Prison Walls by : Victor Skilandziunas
Download or read book Behind the Prison Walls written by Victor Skilandziunas and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Term written by Alice Kim and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of those experiencing life in the long term are often not heard. This collection of essays and personal stories from the people most impacted by long-term incarceration in Statesville Prison bring light to the crisis of mass incarceration and the human cost of excessive sentencing. Compelling, moving narratives from those most affected by the prison industrial complex make a compelling case that death by incarceration is cruel and unusual punishment. Implemented in the 1990’s and 2000’s harsh sentencing policies, commonly labeled “tough on crime,” became a bipartisan political agenda. These policies had real impacts on families and communities, particularly as they caused the removal of many non-white and poor individuals from cities like Chicago. The Long Term brings into the light what has previously been hidden, a counter-narrative to the tough on crime agenda and an urgent plea for a more humane criminal justice system. The book is a critical contribution to the current debate around challenging the mass incarceration and ending mandatory sentencing, especially for non-violent offenders.
Book Synopsis America Is the Prison by : Lee Bernstein
Download or read book America Is the Prison written by Lee Bernstein and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance," shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes. An extraordinary range of prison programs--fine arts, theater, secondary education, and prisoner-run programs--allowed the voices of prisoners to influence the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican writers, "New Journalism," and political theater, among the most important aesthetic contributions of the decade. By the 1980s and '90s, prisoners' educational and artistic programs were scaled back or eliminated as the "war on crime" escalated. But by then these prisoners' words had crossed over the wall, helping many Americans to rethink the meaning of the walls themselves and, ultimately, the meaning of the society that produced them.
Book Synopsis The Insane Chicago Way by : John Hagedorn
Download or read book The Insane Chicago Way written by John Hagedorn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police, the press, and the public all see the kind of violence that besets the inner city today as irrational and basically about turf, revenge, or drugs. Renowned criminologist and expert on gangs, John Hagedorn here tells a very different and little-known story centered on the dramatic rise and fall of a Mafia-like Latino organization in Chicago called "Spanish Growth & Development." Hagedorn's main informant is 'Sal Martino, ' an Italian Mafioso who became intimately involved with the "In$ane Family," one of the factions of Spanish Growth & Development. Through Sal's first-hand account, Hagedorn shows that the violence was not a result of "disorganized crime" but rather the outcome of SGD's prolonged demise. He gives us for the first time a detailed the history of SGD-the reasons for its creation, the uneasy alliances between gang families, the organization's reliance on bottom-up police corruption, and its ultimate collapse in a pool of blood at a 1999 "peace" conference. Revealing the hidden and riveting stories of Chicago gangs' efforts to build structures ostensibly to reduce violence and to organize crime, of the integration of gang and mafia history, and of the central role of police corruption in Chicago's gangland, "The In$ane Chicago Way" makes a powerful argument for the need to regard corruption as the bedrock of gang power. It dispels the notion that gang violence can be explained solely by ecological, neighborhood-based processes and sheds light on the current gang situation in Chicago by laying bare its history while raising disturbing questions for researchers, policy-makers, and the public.
Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Society of Captives by : Gresham M. Sykes
Download or read book The Society of Captives written by Gresham M. Sykes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners. Re-released now with a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author, The Society of Captives will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power.
Book Synopsis Financing for Public Broadcasting-1972, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power ..., 92-2, on H.R. 11807, 7443, and 12808 ..., February 1, 2, and 3, 1972 by : United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Download or read book Financing for Public Broadcasting-1972, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power ..., 92-2, on H.R. 11807, 7443, and 12808 ..., February 1, 2, and 3, 1972 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Breaking the Pendulum by : Philip Russell Goodman
Download or read book Breaking the Pendulum written by Philip Russell Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps debunk the pendulum model of American criminal justice, arguing that it distorts how and why punishment changes. From the birth of the penitentiary through recent reforms, the authors show how the struggle of players in the penal field shapes punishment.
