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The Second Chance Club

Author : Jason Hardy
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128607
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Second Chance Club written by Jason Hardy and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana’s incarceration rates were the highest in the US and his department’s caseload had just been increased to 220 “offenders” per parole officer, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he discovered that the biggest problem with our prison system is what we do—and don’t do—when people get out of prison. Deprived of social support and jobs, these former convicts are often worse off than when they first entered prison and Hardy dramatizes their dilemmas with empathy and grace. He’s given unique access to their lives and a growing recognition of their struggles and takes on his job with the hope that he can change people’s fates—but he quickly learns otherwise. The best Hardy and his colleagues can do is watch out for impending disaster and help clean up the mess left behind. But he finds that some of his charges can muster the miraculous power to save themselves. By following these heroes, he both stokes our hope and fuels our outrage by showing us how most offenders, even those with the best intentions, end up back in prison—or dead—because the system systematically fails them. Our focus should be, he argues, to give offenders the tools they need to re-enter society which is not only humane but also vastly cheaper for taxpayers. As immersive and dramatic as Evicted and as revelatory as The New Jim Crow, The Second Chance Club shows us how to solve the cruelest problems prisons create for offenders and society at large.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education

Author : Lois M. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833081322
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education written by Lois M. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates' risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.

Humane Health Care for Prisoners

Author : Kenneth L. Faiver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Humane Health Care for Prisoners written by Kenneth L. Faiver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities. It references national standards of professional practice as well as the advice of recognized experts. The mission of corrections is the care and custody of prisoners with a view to public safety within a place dedicated to punishment, while the mission of the medical and mental health professionals in a corrections facility is to care for the health and well-being of the prisoners. Both have a duty to provide care, but their differing roles and objectives give rise to ethical role conflict and disagreement regarding appropriate care strategies. Humane Health Care for Prisoners considers important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners, covering topics such as privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, extended isolation and solitary confinement, use of mace, strip searches and body cavity searches, and medical experimentation on prisoners as human subjects. It also considers participation by health care professionals in capital punishment, coerced substance abuse treatment, how much health care to provide, organizational structure and hierarchy, cooperation between correctional and health care staff, and the importance of recognizing mental illness as a chronic condition. This book is informative for professionals working in corrections facilities, such as physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, wardens, jail administrators, sheriffs, and corrections officials, as well as legislators and decision makers, attorneys involved in correctional healthcare lawsuits, students of criminal justice, and those seeking to work in the field of correctional health care or in corrections. Additionally, students and professors of medical ethics will find this book helpful in illustrating real-life topics for research and discussion.

Prisoners of Arionn

Author : Brian Herbert
Publisher : Ace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780441679287
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Arionn written by Brian Herbert and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if students from a distant planet decided to study Earth as a science project? What if they placed San Francisco in a giant bubble and sent it into space? And what if the citizens of the city were not crazy about the idea? The answer is a witty, thrilling new novel.

A Second Chance

Author : Catherine Hoke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999669501
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book A Second Chance written by Catherine Hoke and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prisoners of Fear

Author : Gera-Lind Kolarik
Publisher : Garrett County Press
ISBN 13 : 1891053701
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Fear written by Gera-Lind Kolarik and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connie Krauser Chaney had a troubled childhood that she hoped to escape by creating her own stable and caring family. Stability, however, was the last thing she found with her husband Wayne Chaney. Physically and sexually abusive, Wayne was an uncontrollable force in the life of Connie and their young beautiful son, Max. Acclaimed author Gera-Lind Kolarik investigates both sides of this fatally abusive relationship, which prompted one of the United States' first anti-stalking laws.

Rethinking Corrections

Author : Lior Gideon
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412970180
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Corrections written by Lior Gideon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration. Each chapter focuses on a specific phase of the process.

Humble Pi

Author : Matt Parker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593084691
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Humble Pi written by Matt Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations—that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes.” —Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.

Thoughts from Prison

Author : Chance Vang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781644100202
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Thoughts from Prison written by Chance Vang and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation

Author : Lois M. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833084933
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation written by Lois M. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the effectiveness of correctional education for both incarcerated adults and juveniles, presents the results of a survey of U.S. state correctional education directors, and offers recommendations for improving correctional education.

Prisoners of the White House

Author : Kenneth T. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317253477
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the White House written by Kenneth T. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoners of the White House looks at the isolation experienced by presidents of the United States in the White House, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far removed from everyday life. The authors look at how this is emerging as one of the most serious dilemmas facing the American presidency. As presidents have become more isolated, the role of the presidential pollster has grown. Ken Walsh has been given exclusive access to the polls and confidential memos received by presidents over the years, and has interviewed presidential pollsters directly to gain their unique perspective. Prisoners of the White House gets inside the bubble and punctures the mythology surrounding the presidency.

This Is Ear Hustle

Author : Nigel Poor
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593238885
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book This Is Ear Hustle written by Nigel Poor and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “profound, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking” (The New York Times) view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle “A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast and all those who seek to understand crime, punishment, and mass incarceration in America.”—Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison. Initially drawn to each other by their shared interest in storytelling, neither had podcast production experience when they decided to enter Radiotopia’s contest for new shows . . . and won. Using the prize for seed money, Nigel and Earlonne launched Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for “eavesdropping.” It was the first podcast created and produced entirely within prison and would go on to be heard millions of times worldwide, garner Peabody and Pulitzer award nominations, and help earn Earlonne his freedom when his sentence was commuted in 2018. In This Is Ear Hustle, Nigel and Earlonne share their own stories of how they came to San Quentin, how they created their phenomenally popular podcast amid extreme limitations, and what has kept them collaborating season after season. They present new stories, all with the same insight, balance, and rapport that distinguish the podcast. In an era when more than two million people are incarcerated across the United States—a number that grows by 600,000 annually—Nigel and Earlonne explore the full and often surprising realities of prison life. With characteristic candor and humor, their moving portrayals include unexpected moments of self-discovery, unlikely alliances, inspirational resilience, and ingenious work-arounds. One personal narrative at a time, framed by Nigel’s and Earlonne’s distinct perspectives, This Is Ear Hustle reveals the complexity of life for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people while illuminating the shared experiences of humanity that unite us all.

So You Think You've Got Problems?

Author : Alex Bellos
Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781783351909
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book So You Think You've Got Problems? written by Alex Bellos and published by Guardian Faber Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides . . . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?

Liberating Minds

Author : Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620971232
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Minds written by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and thought-provoking argument for offering free college in prisons—from the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anthony Cardenales was a stickup artist in the Bronx before spending seventeen years in prison. Today he is a senior manager at a recycling plant in Westchester, New York. He attributes his ability to turn his life around to the college degree he earned in prison. Many college-in-prison graduates achieve similar success and the positive ripple effects for their families and communities, and for the country as a whole, are dramatic. College-in-prison programs have been shown to greatly reduce recidivism. They increase post-prison employment, allowing the formerly incarcerated to better support their families and to reintegrate successfully into their communities. College programs also decrease violence within prisons, improving conditions for both correction officers and the incarcerated. Liberating Minds eloquently makes the case for these benefits and also illustrates them through the stories of formerly incarcerated college students. As the country confronts its legacy of over-incarceration, college-in-prison provides a corrective on the path back to a more democratic and humane society. “Lagemann includes intensive research, but her most powerful supporting evidence comes from the anecdotes of former prisoners who have become published poets, social workers, and nonprofit leaders.”—Publishers Weekly

Prisoners of Colonialism

Author : Ronald Fernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Colonialism written by Ronald Fernandez and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to the literature on constitutional and human rights issues. "A captivating and sober book that picks apart... cherished assumptions regarding the historical relationship of Puerto Rico and the U.S."--William Olds

Prisoner's Dilemma

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063119447
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner's Dilemma written by Richard Powers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment. “Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.”— New Republic Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that’s in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner’s Dilemma is a story of the power of individual experience.

The Growth of Incarceration in the United States

Author : Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309298018
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Growth of Incarceration in the United States written by Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than the rates in Western Europe and other democracies. The U.S. prison population is largely drawn from the most disadvantaged part of the nation's population: mostly men under age 40, disproportionately minority, and poorly educated. Prisoners often carry additional deficits of drug and alcohol addictions, mental and physical illnesses, and lack of work preparation or experience. The growth of incarceration in the United States during four decades has prompted numerous critiques and a growing body of scientific knowledge about what prompted the rise and what its consequences have been for the people imprisoned, their families and communities, and for U.S. society. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines research and analysis of the dramatic rise of incarceration rates and its affects. This study makes the case that the United States has gone far past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by social benefits and has reached a level where these high rates of incarceration themselves constitute a source of injustice and social harm. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines policy changes that created an increasingly punitive political climate and offers specific policy advice in sentencing policy, prison policy, and social policy. The report also identifies important research questions that must be answered to provide a firmer basis for policy. This report is a call for change in the way society views criminals, punishment, and prison. This landmark study assesses the evidence and its implications for public policy to inform an extensive and thoughtful public debate about and reconsideration of policies.