The Cage of Days

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555059
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cage of Days by : Michael G. Flaherty

Download or read book The Cage of Days written by Michael G. Flaherty and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs, this book reveals what time does to prisoners and what prisoners do to time. Carceral and Flaherty consider the connection between the subjective dimensions of time and the existential circumstances of imprisonment. Convicts find that their experience of time has become deeply distorted by the rhythm and routines of prison and by how authorities ensure that an inmate’s time is under their control. They become obsessed with the passage of time and preoccupied with regaining temporal autonomy, creating elaborate strategies for modifying their perception of time. To escape the feeling that their lives lack forward momentum, prisoners devise distinctive ways to mark the passage of time, but these tactics can backfire by intensifying their awareness of temporality. Providing rich and nuanced analysis grounded in the distinctive voices of diverse prisoners, The Cage of Days examines how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.

Doing Time

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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611451442
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Time by : Bell Gale Chevigny

Download or read book Doing Time written by Bell Gale Chevigny and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing.

A Grip of Time

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Publisher : Red Lightning Books
ISBN 13 : 1684350808
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grip of Time by : Lauren Kessler

Download or read book A Grip of Time written by Lauren Kessler and published by Red Lightning Books. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security prison while illuminating the benefits of the craft of writing. . . . compassionate.” —Publishers Weekly A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about—a maximum-security prison—and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers’ Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives. As they struggle with the weight of their guilt and wonder if they should hope for a future outside prison walls, Kessler struggles with the fiercely competing ideas of rehabilitation and punishment, forgiveness and blame that are at the heart of the American penal system. Gripping, intense, and heartfelt, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life shows what a lifetime with no hope of release looks like up-close. “Takes us on a compelling, intensely personal journey into the rarely glimpsed end point of our justice system . . . What dignity, meaning, and success these lifers achieve despite the system’s design.” —Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t “A keenly observed and deeply felt narrative . . . so original and so compelling . . . it wouldn’t let me go.” —Alex Kotlowitz, national bestselling author of An American Summer

Prison Time

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780578334
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Prison Time by : Shaun Attwood

Download or read book Prison Time written by Shaun Attwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison Time, the sequel to Hard Time, is the story of Shaun Attwood's journey through the Arizona Department of Corrections and his deportation to England. Sentenced to nine years in Arizona’s state prison for distributing Ecstasy, 'English Shaun' Attwood finds himself living among gang members, sexual predators and drug-crazed psychopaths. After being attacked by a 20-stone California biker in for stabbing a girlfriend, Shaun writes about the prisoners who befriend, protect and inspire him. They include T-Bone, a massive African American ex-Marine who risks his life saving vulnerable inmates from rape, and Two Tonys, an old-school Mafia murderer who left the corpses of his rivals from Tucson to Alaska. They teach Shaun how to turn incarceration to his advantage, and to learn from his mistakes. Resigned to living alongside violent, mentally-ill, and drug-addicted inmates, Shaun immerses himself in psychology and philosophy to try to make sense of his past behaviour, and begins applying what he learns as he adapts to prison life. Encouraged by Two Tonys to explore fiction as well, Shaun reads over a thousand books which, with support from brilliant psychotherapist Dr. O, speed along his personal development. As his ability to deflect daily threats improves, Shaun begins to look forward to his release with optimism and a new love waiting for him. Yet the words of Aristotle from one of Shaun’s books will prove prophetic: 'We cannot learn without pain'.

Doing Time Together

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226114686
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Time Together by : Megan Comfort

Download or read book Doing Time Together written by Megan Comfort and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America’s massive prison system, Comfort’s book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.

Hard Labor and Hard Time

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Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813039855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis Hard Labor and Hard Time by : Vivien M. L. Miller

Download or read book Hard Labor and Hard Time written by Vivien M. L. Miller and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.

Doing Time in the Garden

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Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 0976605422
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Time in the Garden by : James Jiler

Download or read book Doing Time in the Garden written by James Jiler and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2006-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs.

Marking Time

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067491922X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis Marking Time by : Nicole R. Fleetwood

Download or read book Marking Time written by Nicole R. Fleetwood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America’s prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions—including solitary confinement—these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to transform the country’s criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century."

Lost Time

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372592
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost Time by : Jozef Czapski

Download or read book Lost Time written by Jozef Czapski and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and ­altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust’s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust’s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.

Serving Productive Time

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757397719
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Book Synopsis Serving Productive Time by : Tom Lagana

Download or read book Serving Productive Time written by Tom Lagana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul—a program that develops positive change for inmates and their loved ones With their books Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul, Tom and Laura Lagana have shown readers how to make positive use of their time—whether they are serving others or serving time. In Serving Productive Time they go one step further, using powerful stories, poems, and cartoons created by inmates and others to address the realities of penal existence. They build on these voices of experience with essays and advice that show inmates how to truly make their time count, and give meaning to their lives right now, while making amends for their crimes and working toward release. Inspires inmates to use programs and resources, perform positive deeds, and acquire skills Empowers correctional staff, counselors, families, and volunteers to help inmates who want to make positive changes in their lives

Life In Prison: Eight Hours at a Time

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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884484130
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis Life In Prison: Eight Hours at a Time by : Robert Reilly

Download or read book Life In Prison: Eight Hours at a Time written by Robert Reilly and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Silver Medal, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Best New Voice* *Finalist, Memoir, 2015 Maine Literary Award* In this gripping nonfiction account, Robert Reilly provides a look inside America’s prison system unlike any other, and the way that it affects not only the prisoners themselves but also the corrections officers and their families. After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair. The specter of success in the music business had become a monster about to ruin his family life. Something had to change, or something was going to break beyond repair. A chance conversation with a neighbor led him to apply, somewhat half-heartedly, for a job at the county prison. Although he hated the thought of a “real job,” a regular salary of $40,000 with benefits, and paid time off seemed like a small fortune. “Amazingly, I somehow got hired. So, in an effort to do the right thing and put my family first, I left the madness of the music business and entered the insanity of the U.S. prison system.” Robert Reilly served a seven-year term as a prison guard in Pennsylvania and Maine. Entering America’s industrial prison system in search of a way to support his young family, the struggling musician found himself in a looking-glass world where, often, only the uniforms distinguished guards from prisoners. Life in Prison chronicles the horrors of a place where justice is arbitrary, outcomes are preordained, and the private sector makes big money while the public looks away. This is Reilly’s story of doing time. To call the experience sobering would be the ultimate understatement: “As time crawls by, I become jealous of the inmates leaving the prison. I start to slip; I start to feel like I’m losing my faith. Any trace of innocence that I thought I still had starts to evaporate. I begin to feel trapped, imprisoned, locked in a dark heartbreaking world, just like an inmate.”

Hard Time

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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616082690
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Hard Time by : Shaun Attwood

Download or read book Hard Time written by Shaun Attwood and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the time the author, a former British stock broker in Phoenix, spent in the Maricopa Jail, run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

A Time to Die

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Publisher : Crown Business
ISBN 13 : 9780812904871
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis A Time to Die by : Tom Wicker

Download or read book A Time to Die written by Tom Wicker and published by Crown Business. This book was released on 1975 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 1971, the inmates of Attica revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. The rebels demanded -- and were granted -- the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial mediators. Tom Wicker, then the Associate Editor of the New York Times, was one of those summoned. This is his account.

Behind a Convict's Eyes

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Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Behind a Convict's Eyes by : K. C. Carceral

Download or read book Behind a Convict's Eyes written by K. C. Carceral and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book provides accurate descriptions of prisons and prison life, written by a prisoner sentenced to life, who uses the pseudonym "K. C. Carceral" to hide his identity for protection. With the assistance of editors Thomas Bernard, Leanne F. Alarid, Bruce Bikle, and Alene Bikle, this book presents a gripping, and often graphic, portrayal of life in prison. This narrative presentation of such topics as prison violence, friendships, sexual mores, and serving time includes graphic language and situations. Through the powerful personal experiences of the author, readers are better equipped to develop informed opinions about the American prison system. Inspired to write about his experiences in prison, Carceral sought the help of noted academics, including Thomas Bernard, to create a powerful and informative narrative. This is the first textbook written by a life-sentenced inmate. Bernard, along with editors Leanne F. Alarid, Bruce Bikle and Alene Bikle developed the manuscript to ensure its suitability for classroom use in colleges and universities. The wide range of topics covered includes entrance into prison; prison life, including violence in prisons; dealing with time; prison politics and economics; sex, racism, retaliation, and gangs.

Doing HIS Time (UK Edition)

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ISBN 13 : 9780692255360
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing HIS Time (UK Edition) by : Lynn Vanderzalm

Download or read book Doing HIS Time (UK Edition) written by Lynn Vanderzalm and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian devotional bringing the Gospel to prisoners using their culture and slang and stories.

Serving Time Too

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761871489
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Serving Time Too by : Rosalind Boone Williams

Download or read book Serving Time Too written by Rosalind Boone Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son’s Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go. But Rosalind Williams’ memoir is unique because her unconditional love for Marell persisted after his conviction for murder. During his sixteen years in prison and for two-and-a-half years after his release, every aspect of Rosalind’s life was affected by her fidelity to him and by the failures of a penal system tinged with racial and class inequities. Rosalind tells a personal story with enormous significance to society. She is an unflinchingly fair, sometimes self-critical narrator who reflects upon the enticements of violence and crime, especially for African American young men, despite the values they are taught at home. Her experiences demonstrate the damage that crime and punishment inflict upon those good people who stand by loved ones during and after incarceration. This memoir will comfort anyone related to the 2.3 million people behind bars in the United States. Others will hear a call to reform and, more importantly, they will feel compassion for the offender’s family, and the offender. No other book in print takes Rosalind’s perspective on the problems of crime and incarceration.

Playing for Time Theatre Company

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Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783209514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Playing for Time Theatre Company by : Annie McKean

Download or read book Playing for Time Theatre Company written by Annie McKean and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than a decade of practice-based research in prisons across the UK, 'Playing for Time Theatre Company' presents the reader with a rich and invaluable resource for using theatre as an intervention in, transformation, and rehabilitation of the lives of incarcerated people. The book analyses and reflects upon theatre productions staged in HMP Winchester, a medium-security prison, among other sites. As a result of these experiences, McKean has developed a unique model of practice in which undergraduate students work alongside prisoners, developing productions and leading workshops. The work draws on diverse methodologies and approaches, from community theatre practices to forensic psychology and criminology, performance studies to critical theory.