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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars

Author : James Drake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399413864
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Letters for the Ages Behind Bars written by James Drake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day. The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankind's most enduring responses to 'crime' through history. What society has sought to achieve over the years by doing so has shifted across the centuries and there is now a variety of purposes: to express disapproval; for the purpose of straight-up punishment through the removal of freedom; to protect the general public; to rehabilitate, perhaps even to forget about those with whom we simply cannot cope. The letters assembled here come from all parts of the world, and from time immemorial: Thomas Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots, Eamon De Valera, Al Capone, Martin Luther King and many more. These letters not only reveal what it is like to be behind bars, but raise issues that are still of pressing interest for us today - such as the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, redemption and social change. They shed light on a system which is primarily one of contradictions – there are letters which inspire, horrify, letters which awe and condemn – even letters which make you laugh or cry.

Pen Pal

Author : Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682193044
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Pen Pal written by Tiyo Attallah Salah-El and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading Behind Bars

Author : Jill Grunenwald
Publisher : Center Point
ISBN 13 : 9781643583211
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Reading Behind Bars written by Jill Grunenwald and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill was lucky enough to snag one of the few librarian gigs left in her home state of Ohio. The catch? The job was behind bars as the prison librarian at a men's minimum-security prison. Talk about baptism by fire.

Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing, 1750–2000

Author : Máire Cross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315317931
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter-Writing, 1750–2000 written by Máire Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social, and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of subject matter and geography, the contributors examine correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall, and Siân Reynolds.

Letters to a Lifer

Author : Cindy Sanford
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1909976156
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Lifer written by Cindy Sanford and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to a Lifer provides a rare insight into life without parole (LWOP) for juveniles in the USA. A true story from Pennsylvania, it is a compelling tale of faith and redemption. Cindy Sanford tells how a chance correspondence with Ken, a prisoner artist, began to change her entrenched ideas about offenders. Her book now adds voice to the work of the USA’s National Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and will also be of interest to students of restorative justice. In 1999, America’s Most Wanted broadcast details of a notorious crime. Twelve years later Cindy was introduced to Ken, one of the two boys convicted, through his remarkable wildlife art. By then a young man, Ken had spent half his life in prison. Initially wary, Cindy was surprised to find him humble, polite and deeply grateful for her interest. Gradually she and her family were able to look beyond his crime to the person he had become. Despite a hardening of attitudes generally towards offenders in the USA and other parts of the western world, Letters to a Lifer shows why the campaign against LWOP sentences for juveniles is nonetheless gaining momentum.

Letters Behind Bars

Author : Cinnamin Herring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Letters Behind Bars written by Cinnamin Herring and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and son struggle to overcome tragedy and realize their dreams.

Death of the Teen Age

Author : Tony Gaines
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642585475
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Death of the Teen Age written by Tony Gaines and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living today as if tomorrow never comes." After surviving an attempted suicide, Tom Jones, a shy Christian adolescent, learns to use writing in his diary as a means of communicating with himself as the family settles in on a new life in West Texas. High school football in Texas seems to be the state's unofficial religion, yet it's the emergence of television, "the new God," that starts to have a stronghold in shaping Tom's newly found pop culture world. "The Game" begins when star quarterback Reggie Thomas moves in across the street and takes Tom under his wings, tutoring Tom on the road to the end of innocence. Will the duo score on a last-ditch drive to escape with their souls in contact, or find how easy it is to get lost in the forbidding world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Just as the Stone Ages and Ice Ages were both lost to history, Tom's diary journals how the Teen Age somehow got lost in history as this page-turner continues to unfold masterfully, sure to leave readers laughing at the anecdotes on an unforgettable journey down memory lane. ***** Tony Gaines's first novel is a creative marvel. It's witty, informative, thought-provoking, with well-placed twists throughout the entire novel. There were so many lesson learned. ""-Gina Price, Former Abilene High School Alumni Awesome read: it's fast-paced, funny, with a shocking twist. The ending caught me by total surprise. ""Josh Daniel, Sports Editor Metro State University

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Author : Martin Luther King
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780063425811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. With an afterword by Reginald Dwayne Betts On April 16, 1923, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to an open letter written and published by eight white clergyman admonishing the civil rights demonstrations happening in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King drafted his seminal response on scraps of paper smuggled into jail. King criticizes his detractors for caring more about order than justice, defends nonviolent protests, and argues for the moral responsibility to obey just laws while disobeying unjust ones. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" proclaims a message - confronting any injustice is an acceptable and righteous reason for civil disobedience. This beautifully designed edition presents Dr. King's speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

Letters from the Dhamma Brothers

Author : Jenny Phillips
Publisher : Pariyatti Publishing
ISBN 13 : 192870641X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Dhamma Brothers written by Jenny Phillips and published by Pariyatti Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoughts, struggles, dreams, and triumphs of inmates who took part in a voluntary meditation program at Alabama's Donaldson Prison in 2002.

You Only Get Letters from Jail

Author : Jodi Angel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1935639579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book You Only Get Letters from Jail written by Jodi Angel and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jodi Angel’s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom’s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and humanity. Angel’s gritty and heartbreaking prose leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn't ordinarily trust or believe in.

Decades Behind Bars

Author : Gaye D. Holman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628483
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Decades Behind Bars written by Gaye D. Holman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind. Beginning in 1994, the author began recording the personal stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men candidly discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and to be confined for perhaps the remainder of their lives. Their stories are balanced by conversations with correctional officers, prison administrators, chaplains and parole board members. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system.

The Last Lecture

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340978504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Inside

Author : Michael Santos
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312343507
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Inside written by Michael Santos and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a federal inmate with two decades of continuous confinement comes a controversial expose of the shocking details of life in American prisons

The Prison Alphabet

Author : Bahiyyah Muhammad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939509123
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Prison Alphabet written by Bahiyyah Muhammad and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prison Alphabet is a child-friendly approach to helping young children understand what is going on behind bars with their parent(s) or family member(s).

Humbled Letters From Prison

Author : Jayson Williams
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622306090
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Humbled Letters From Prison written by Jayson Williams and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams' charisma, generosity and high-energy hustle made him one of America's most popular pro athletes during the 90s, and eventually landed him a remarkable $86 million contract with the New Jersey Nets. Referred to as "The People's Player," Jayson's magnetic appeal and tenacity on the boards made him a fierce, yet beloved competitor who spent his time off court flying planes, building houses, and tending to the chores on the farm with his father. His easy charm and sidesplitting one-liners consistently landed him on NBA sportswriters' All-Interview team and made him an audience favorite on the media circuits. But few knew the depths of pain, tragedy and addiction masked by a smile his grandmother called his "most beautiful attire." Lying on his bunk amongst "the most confrontational bunch of misfits," Jayson recalls his rapid climb and mighty fall, and his father's wise words: "A lifetime of happiness as you know it, Jayson, no man alive could bear it. It would be hell on earth. You have to stick to your morning routine." From the New York Times bestselling author of Loose Balls, Humbled is a powerful and candid collection of Jayson's personal letters and journals from behind bars. Shocking revelations, surprising connections, shameful secrets, and scars that only God can heal-Jayson holds nothing back as he writes about his journey to faith on both sides of the barbed-wire fences.

Fourth City

Author : Doran Larson
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950196
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Fourth City written by Doran Larson and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the authors’ efforts at self-help, the institutional resistance such efforts meet at nearly every turn, and the impact, in money and lives, that this resistance has on the public. Directly confronting the images of prisons and prisoners manufactured by popular media, so-called reality TV, and for-profit local and national news sources, Fourth City recognizes American prisoners as our primary, frontline witnesses to the dysfunction of the largest prison system on earth. Filled with deeply personal stories of coping, survival, resistance, and transformation, Fourth City should be read by every American who believes that law should achieve order in the cause of justice rather than at its cost.

Lettetrs from Marion

Author : Joel Blaeser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986405402
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Lettetrs from Marion written by Joel Blaeser and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 15, 1995. Congress makes a decision changing the federal drug law, inciting simultaneous riots in over 10 federal prisons as a result of the seemingly racial motivation, causing over 39 million dollars in damage.And no one reported it.Joel Blaeser survived the riot at FCI Talladega, the first of over ten, only to be charged with inciting it along with 21 other convicts, all black. An inspiring educational book that breaks many myths about the war on drugs, the american prison system and race in america. Joel's story chronicles his journey through the prison system, beginning with his trek across the globe following the Grateful Dead, then spanning the 6 federal prisons he did time in, in USP Marion, the most dangerous federal super maximum prison ever built, eventually culminating in the loss of his 2.9 million dollar lake estate and recovery from alcohol. Incarcerated (after losing his federal jury trial) as a naive Midwesterner 23 year old, Joel is amongst and one of the morally corrupt living in lock up where the guards are as corrupt as the criminals. A backstage pass to a otherwise off limits world, Joel's story's rich unvarnished details of life inside "the" most predacious super maximum prison ever devised, USP Marion during the 1990's, where the entire prison population was on 22-23 hour lock down.Sentenced to 151 months as a first time non violent offender, he grew up in a university of crime; learning how to survive both in and outside of the spiritually bereft walls of prison from the likes of John gotti, Bruce Pierce, James (Doc) Holliday and many others, some of the most predacious and sophisticated criminals of our time. The genesis of his rehabilitation was 23 hour solitary lockdown in USP Marion.A story of loss, injustice and redemption, this autobiographical account is speckled with raw, human experience in the form of Joel's letters to loved ones from USP Marion. race relations, solitary confinement, political uprising, usp marion, grateful dead tour, prison psychology, war on drugs, pop in the housing bubble, poker,