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Prison City

Author : Ruth Massingill
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488905
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Prison City written by Ruth Massingill and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison City looks beneath the placid surface of Huntsville, Texas, execution capital of the world, and sheds light on controversial issues usually hidden behind penitentiary walls. The authors draw on a multitude of voices from the community surrounding the prison - from inmates and guards to neighboring residents and local politicians - to reflect on questions of crime and punishment, vengeance, and forgiveness. We see how the sophisticated communication techniques employed by inmates, information officers, and community leaders shape opinions in the small towns where prisons are a principal industry. The poignant, evocative stories that run throughout the book highlight the incarcerated population's increasing influence in the political, cultural, and economic landscape in the United States. Most of all, Prison City offers opportunities to understand why the Texas justice system has become a global metaphor for incarceration and capital punishment.

Fourth City

Author : Doran Larson
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950196
Total Pages : 352 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 352 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.

In the Prison City, Brussels, 1914-1918

Author : J. H. Twells
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book In the Prison City, Brussels, 1914-1918 written by J. H. Twells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In the Prison City, Brussels, 1914-1918" (A Personal Narrative) by J. H. Twells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

City of Inmates

Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631199
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Writing on the Wall

Author : Mumia Abu Jamal
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0872866556
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Wall written by Mumia Abu Jamal and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mumia Abu Jamal’s essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.

Escape from Prison Island (LEGO City)

Author : J. E. Bright
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545949297
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Prison Island (LEGO City) written by J. E. Bright and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's never a dull moment in LEGO(R) City! In this new LEGO(R) CITY 8x8, three crooks have escaped from Prison Island. Can the cops catch them before they get to shore? Find out in this funny, action-packed adventure featuring original illustrations!

The War on Neighborhoods

Author : Ryan Lugalia-Hollon
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807084662
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The War on Neighborhoods written by Ryan Lugalia-Hollon and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoods For people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like New York and Los Angeles has fallen in recent years, in many Chicago communities, it has continued at alarming rates. Meanwhile, residents of these same communities have endured decades of some of the highest rates of arrest, incarceration, and police abuse in the nation. The War on Neighborhoods argues that these trends are connected. Crime in Chicago, as in many other US cities, has been fueled by a broken approach to public safety in disadvantaged neighborhoods. For nearly forty years, public leaders have attempted to create peace through punishment, misinvesting billions of dollars toward the suppression of crime, largely into a small subset of neighborhoods on the city’s West and South Sides. Meanwhile, these neighborhoods have struggled to sustain investments into basic needs such as jobs, housing, education, and mental healthcare. When the main investment in a community is policing and incarceration, rather than human and community development, that amounts to a “war on neighborhoods,” which ultimately furthers poverty and disadvantage. Longtime Chicago scholars Ryan Lugalia-Hollon and Daniel Cooper tell the story of one of those communities, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side that is emblematic of many majority-black neighborhoods in US cities. Sharing both rigorous data and powerful stories, the authors explain why punishment will never create peace and why we must rethink the ways that public dollars are invested into making places safe. The War on Neighborhoods makes the case for a revolutionary reformation of our public-safety model that focuses on shoring up neighborhood institutions and addressing the effects of trauma and poverty. The authors call for a profound transformation in how we think about investing in urban communities—away from the perverse misinvestment of policing and incarceration and toward a model that invests in human and community development.

Big House on the Prairie

Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641034X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Big House on the Prairie written by John M. Eason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."

Paths to Prison

Author : Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941332665
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Paths to Prison written by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.

The City Record

Author : New York (N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laws and General Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws and General Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati written by Cincinnati (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

Author : Kevin C. Pyle
Publisher : Pm Press
ISBN 13 : 9781604860344
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Real Cost of Prisons Comix written by Kevin C. Pyle and published by Pm Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. This volume collects the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book is thoroughly researched and documented. Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story of how the financing and site locations of prisons affects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of how mass incarceration affects people of urban communities from where the majority of incarcerated people come from. Prisoners of the War on Drugs includes the history of the war on drugs, mandatory minimums, how racism creates harsher sentences for people of color, stories on how the war on drugs works against women, three strikes laws, obstacles to coming home after incarceration, and how mass incarceration destabilizes neighborhoods. Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children includes stories about women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the "costs" of incarceration for women and their families. Also included are alternatives to the present system, a glossary and footnotes. Over 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent to families of people who are incarcerated, people who are incarcerated and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The book includes a chapter with descriptions about how the comix have been put to use in the work of organizers and activists in prison and in the "free world" by ESL teachers, high school teachers, college professors, students, and health care providers throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring.

Prison Town

Author : Kevin Pyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prison Town written by Kevin Pyle and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid, informative, and digestible comic (illustrated graphic guide is probably more accurate) on the real costs (social, economic, community and personal) of what it means when a prison is built in a (typically poor, rural) town. There are more prisons in America than Wal-Marts. And there are more prisoners in America today than farmers. Kevin Payle and Craig Gilmore lay it all out.

Legislative Document

Author : New York (State). Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Document written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carceral Spatiality

Author : Dominique Moran
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137560576
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Carceral Spatiality written by Dominique Moran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume’s inventive engagements in ‘thinking through carcerality’ touch on more elusive concepts of identity, memory and internal – as well as physical – walls and bars. Edited by two human geographers, and positioned within a criminological context, this original collection draws together essays by geographers and criminologists with a keen interest in carceral studies. The authors stretch their disciplinary boundaries; tackling a range of contemporary literatures to engage in new conversations and raising important questions within current debates on incarceration. A highly interdisciplinary project, this edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, social policy, and spatial carceral studies.