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Firm but Fair: the Life of Sing Sing Warden Lewis Lawes

Author : John Jay Rouse
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781462823000
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Firm but Fair: the Life of Sing Sing Warden Lewis Lawes written by John Jay Rouse and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Lawes was a man who was quite influential in the correctional history of the United States. His writings and his political contacts put him in a unique position to talk constructively about the important criminal justice issues during the 1920s and the 1930s. The topics debated during this time period, juvenile justice, gun control, the death penalty and what the role of prisons should be, are just as relevant today.

Life and Death in Sing Sing

Author : Lewis Edward Lawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in Sing Sing written by Lewis Edward Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, the warden of Sing Sing Prison, knows the criminal as he is and portrays him, not in a sensational or romantic way, but as a human being who has violated the law.

The Rose Man of Sing Sing

Author : James McGrath Morris
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823222667
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Rose Man of Sing Sing written by James McGrath Morris and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the early 20th-century newspaper giant who became news after killing his wife “has the pace and detail of an engrossing historical novel” (Boston Herald). As city editor of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the quintessential newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly, setting the pace for evening press journalism with blockbuster stories from the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic. At the pinnacle of his fame in 1918, Chapin was deeply depressed and facing financial ruin. He decided to kill himself and his wife Nellie. But after shooting Nellie in her sleep, he failed to take his own life. The trial made one hell of a story for the Evening World’s competitors, and Chapin was sentenced to life in Ossining, New York’s, infamous Sing Sing Prison. In The Rose Man of Sing Sing, James McGrath Morris tracks Chapin’s journey from Chicago street reporter to celebrity New York powerbroker to infamous murderer. But Chapin’s story is not without redemption: in prison, he started a newspaper fighting for prisoner rights, wrote a best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and transformed barren prison plots into world-famous rose gardens. The first biography of one of the founding figures of modern American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate.

The Criminal Justice System

Author : Ronald J. Waldron
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0982365802
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Criminal Justice System written by Ronald J. Waldron and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Criminal Justice System: An Introduction, Fifth Edition incorporates the latest developments in the field while retaining the basic organization of previous editions which made this textbook so popular. Exploring the police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections, including probation and parole, the book moves chronologically through the different agencies in the order in which they are usually encountered when an individual goes through the criminal justice process. New in the Fifth Edition: A complete updating of charts and statistics to reflect the changes the FBI has made to the Unified Crime Reports System Expanded material on the history of law enforcement Additional information on terrorism, homeland security, and its effect on the police New approaches to policing such as Problem-Oriented Policing and Intelligence-Led Policing Cyber crime, identity theft, accreditation, and new approaches to crime analysis New information on prosecution standards, community prosecution, and prosecutorial abuse New emphasis on the concept of jurisdiction and the inter-relation between the courts’ functions and the other branches of the criminal justice system An examination of the dilemma for the courts caused by the intersection of politics, funding, media, and technology New discussions on prisoner radicalization Pedagogical features: Each chapter begins with an outline and a statement of purpose to help students understand exactly what they are supposed to master and why Illustrations to assist in the clarification and further development of topics in the text Each chapter ends with a summary, a list of key terms, and a series of discussion questions to stimulate thought Appendices with the United States Constitution, a glossary of criminal justice terminology, and websites useful in gaining knowledge of the criminal justice system Access to a free computerized learning course based on the book

Introduction to Corrections

Author : David H. McElreath
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439896879
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Corrections written by David H. McElreath and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while living and working among us. Introduction to Corrections examines predominant issues related to the system of administering to offenders in the United States. Written in a simple, concise style and enhanc

Killer Looks

Author : Zara Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633886735
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Killer Looks written by Zara Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the U.K willingly went under the knife, their tab picked up by the government. In the beginning, this was a haphazard affair -- applied inconsistently and unfairly to inmates, but entering the 1960s, a movement to scientifically quantify the long-term effect of such programs took hold. And, strange as it may sound, the criminologists were right: recidivism rates plummeted. In 1967, a three-year cosmetic surgery program set on Rikers Island saw recidivism rates drop 36% for surgically altered offenders. The program, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, was led by Dr. Michael Lewin, who ran a similar program at Sing-Sing prison in 1953. Killer Looks draws on the intersectionality of socioeconomic success, racial bias, the prison industry complex and the fallacy of attractiveness to get to the heart of how appearance and societal approval creates self-worth, and uncovers deeper truths of beauty bias, inherited racism, effective recidivism programs, and inequality.

Twenty thousand years in Sing Sing

Author : Lewis Edward Lawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Twenty thousand years in Sing Sing written by Lewis Edward Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pre-Code Hollywood

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500128
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Code Hollywood written by Thomas Doherty and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema—but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded—in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era—what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.

Miracle at Sing Sing

Author : Ralph Blumenthal
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466826045
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Miracle at Sing Sing written by Ralph Blumenthal and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes presided over 300 executions. His progressive ideas shocked many, but he taught the nation that a prison was a community. He allowed a kidnapper to care for his children and a cutthroat to shave him every morning. He organized legendary football games for his "boys," and befriended Hollywood greats such as Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart. This is "A story almost too good to be true, but too true to miss." -Mario Cuomo

Life and Death in Sing Sing

Author : Lewis Edward Lawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in Sing Sing written by Lewis Edward Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life and Death in Sing Sing

Author : Lewis Edward Lawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death in Sing Sing written by Lewis Edward Lawes and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American News Trade Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The American News Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fifty Years in Sing Sing

Author : Alfred Conyes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438454244
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years in Sing Sing written by Alfred Conyes and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating personal account of life at this infamous prison during a bygone era. Written more than eighty years ago, Fifty Years in Sing Sing is the personal account of Alfred Conyes (1852–1931), who worked as a prison guard and then keeper at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, from 1879 to 1929. This unpublished memoir, dated 1930, was found among his granddaughter’s estate by his great-granddaughter Penelope Kay Jarrett. Near the end of his life, Conyes told his story to family member Alfred Van Buren Jr., relating, in detail, harrowing and humorous accounts of what prison life was like from his perspective and how prison conditions changed over the course of a half century. The book covers prison hardship, cruel punishments deemed appropriate at the time, daring and clever escapes, the advent of death by electricity, Prohibition, doughboys, and prison reform. Penelope Kay Jarrett is Biological Technician for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Education Coordinator at the Mound House in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.

The World's Work

Author : Walter Hines Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The World's Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.

Books for All

Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Books for All written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sing Sing Prison

Author : Guy Cheli
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531608033
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sing Sing Prison written by Guy Cheli and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular backdrop for numerous movies, Sing Sing, or "the Big House," has been a site of both controversy and reform. The history of Sing Sing dates back to 1825, when warden Elam Lynds brought one hundred inmates to begin construction of the prison "up the river" on the banks of the Hudson. The marble quarry that supplied the building material for the prison was located in an area that was once home to the Sint Sink, a Native American tribe whose name means "stone upon stone." Prison life was dominated by hard labor during the early years. Convicts in striped suits and shackles built the prison with their own hands. With the arrival of warden Lewis Lawes in 1920, Sing Sing became the most progressive prison of its kind. During this time, the New York Yankees traveled up to Sing Sing to play the prison's home baseball team; the prison grounds were landscaped with shrubbery and flower gardens; and the compound grew to include a chapel, mess hall, barbershop, library, and gymnasium. The electric chair was first introduced at Sing Sing in 1891. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the first civilians to be found guilty of espionage, were put to death there in 1953. Sing Sing Prison contains rare photographs from the prison archives, the Ossining Historical Society, and a private collection.

Carceral Fantasies

Author : Alison Griffiths
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541562
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Carceral Fantasies written by Alison Griffiths and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life. Griffiths considers a diverse mix of cinematic genres, from early actualities and reenactments of notorious executions to reformist exposés of the 1920s. She connects an early fascination with cinematic images of punishment and execution, especially electrocutions, to the attractions of the nineteenth-century carnival electrical wonder show and Phantasmagoria (a ghost show using magic lantern projections and special effects). Griffiths draws upon convict writing, prison annual reports, and the popular press obsession with prison-house cinema to document the integration of film into existing reformist and educational activities and film's psychic extension of flights of fancy undertaken by inmates in their cells. Combining penal history with visual and film studies and theories surrounding media's sensual effects, Carceral Fantasies illuminates how filmic representations of the penal system enacted ideas about modernity, gender, the body, and the public, shaping both the social experience of cinema and the public's understanding of the modern prison.