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Twenty Years Behind Bars

Author : Jeff Burkhart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478392224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years Behind Bars written by Jeff Burkhart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shaken not stirred," we have all heard the saying. It is part of what makes Ian Fleming's super spy James Bond so super. It is not the fact that he drinks martinis, it is how he drinks them that matters. Cocktails are about style and in today's complicated world of drink many of us need a lifestyle guide. 20 Years Behind Bars is that guide; part trade manual and part psychological introspective, it combines real life observations (by a real life bartender) with facts and information in an amusing and irreverent fashion. Take one part Mr. Boston's bartending guide, one part Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a dash of Steve Dublanica's Waiter Rant, combine and you have the pure entertainment that is 20 Years Behind Bars.

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.

Born Behind Bars

Author : Padma Venkatraman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593112482
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Born Behind Bars written by Padma Venkatraman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Venkatraman has never met a heavy theme she did not like....Borrowing elements of fable, it's told with a recurring sense of awe by a boy whom the world, for most of his life, has existed only in stories.”—New York Times Book Review The author of the award-winning The Bridge Home brings readers another gripping novel set in Chennai, India, featuring a boy who's unexpectedly released into the world after spending his whole life in jail with his mom. Kabir has been in jail since the day he was born, because his mom is serving time for a crime she didn't commit. He's never met his dad, so the only family he's got are their cellmates, and the only place he feels the least bit free is in the classroom, where his kind teacher regales him with stories of the wonders of the outside world. Then one day a new warden arrives and announces Kabir is too old to stay. He gets handed over to a long-lost "uncle" who unfortunately turns out to be a fraud, and intends to sell Kabir. So Kabir does the only thing he can--run away as fast as his legs will take him. How does a boy with nowhere to go and no connections make his way? Fortunately, he befriends Rani, another street kid, and she takes him under her wing. But plotting their next move is hard--and fraught with danger--in a world that cares little for homeless, low caste children. This is not the world Kabir dreamed of--but he's discovered he's not the type to give up. Kabir is ready to show the world that he--and his mother--deserve a place in it.

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

Waiting for an Echo

Author : Christine Montross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110667
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for an Echo written by Christine Montross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement.” —The New York Times Book Review L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist * New York Times Book Review Paperback Row * Time Best New Books July 2020 Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American jails and prisons. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones. Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. This expertise—the mind in crisis—has enabled her to reckon with the human stories behind mass incarceration. A father attempting to weigh the impossible calculus of a plea bargain. A bright young woman whose life is derailed by addiction. Boys in a juvenile detention facility who, desperate for human connection, invent a way to communicate with one another from cell to cell. Overextended doctors and correctional officers who strive to provide care and security in environments riddled with danger. Our methods of incarceration take away not only freedom but also selfhood and soundness of mind. In a nation where 95 percent of all inmates are released from prison and return to our communities, this is a practice that punishes us all.

Submerged

Author : Janice Hisle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974060279
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Submerged written by Janice Hisle and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling true-crime drama, based on exclusive new information, Submerged exposes hidden angles of a case that captivated and divided an ordinary American community, tore apart two families and tested the criminal justice system. Compelled by conscience and curiosity, former Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Janice (Morse) Hisle-who covered the saga of Ryan and Sarah Widmer from the start-dug deep for material that tells the untold tale: dozens of interviews, 6,000 pages of trial transcripts and previously unrevealed records.Submerged will draw you into the unexplored depths of a stranger-than-fiction true story-one that you'll still be pondering long after you've finished turning the pages.

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.

Resistance Behind Bars

Author : Victoria Law
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604867884
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Resistance Behind Bars written by Victoria Law and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles. This updated and revised edition of the 2009 PASS Award winning book includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.

Sentence

Author : Daniel Genis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698405765
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Sentence written by Daniel Genis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in the press, given his habit of expressing regret to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years—ten with good behavior, a decade he survived by reading 1,046 books, taking up weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with his fellow inmates, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him. Genis describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system. In his journey from Rikers Island and through a series of upstate institutions, he encounters violence on an almost daily basis, while learning about the social strata of gangs, the “court” system that sets geographic boundaries in prison yards, how sex was obtained, the workings of the black market in drugs and more practical goods, the inventiveness required for everyday tasks such as cooking, and how debilitating solitary confinement actually is—all while trying to preserve his relationship with his wife, whom he recently married. Written with empathy and wit, Sentence is a strikingly powerful memoir of the brutalities of prison and how one man survived them, leaving its walls with this book inside him, “one made of pain and fear and laughter and lots of other books.”

Gideon's Trumpet

Author : Anthony Lewis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030780528X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Gideon's Trumpet written by Anthony Lewis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.

Doing Time

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

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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.

Grace Behind Bars

Author : Bo Mitchell
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1624057845
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Grace Behind Bars written by Bo Mitchell and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Behind Bars shares the true and dramatic account of how Bo Mitchell, businessman and chaplain for the Denver Nuggets, inexplicably ended up in federal prison only to find God’s true freedom behind bars. Ironically, it’s in a six-by-nine-foot cell that God begins to free this driven Christian leader from his prison of performance and success. In the end, Bo realizes that God’s love is a gift, not something he must earn. But there’s more to the story: Just before Bo enters prison, his wife, Gari, becomes incapacitated by a brain illness and enters her own prison of clinical depression. Readers will see how the couple struggled together as their world fell apart, yet ultimately grew closer to each other and God behind the bars of their trials. This story will not only inspire and encourage readers, it will show them how they, too, can find spiritual freedom in life’s “prisons” if they choose to see God’s hand in their lives.

26 Years Behind Bars

Author : Paul Laxton
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1528956249
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book 26 Years Behind Bars written by Paul Laxton and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is written from the perspective of a participant observer. It is not strictly an autobiography or a history, although it has elements of both, as it would fail without them. It is intended for both the general reader and criminal justice professionals. My intention is that the book is educational, showing the prison system over three decades in the context of social, political and organisational change, in particular the impact of the decline of deference, the growth of public managerialism and the rise of political correctness. The trenchant opinions expressed are based on intellectual rumination, observation of human behaviour, and personal and professional experience. I have deliberately chosen a thematic approach for the book so that explanation and information work in tandem, giving a unique insight into the modern prison service and the workings of the public sector.

Poems from Prison

Author : Billy Leland
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796093351
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Poems from Prison written by Billy Leland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from Prison is about how a man that is used to being on the open road and seeing all the beautiful sights he possibly can. All of a sudden the U.S. Justice Department puts him in a maximum security prison in Maine without being sentenced to a crime. His is locked in a cold, concrete room that is five feet wide and nine feet long. It doesn’t even have a window to look out. He is completely shut off from the world. For thirty-one months he thinks his lawyer is fighting to win his case. Three days before the trial is to start, the prosecutor threatens him. He is told that the government is going to arrest his twenty-two year old son if he doesn’t plead guilty to all of what is on the indictment. Of course, he takes the plea so they will leave his son alone. To pass as much time as he can, he starts to write poems. The poems are only to get the things happening every day off his mind. Writing got him through fifteen years in prison.

Special Report

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Special Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God behind Bars: An Empirical Approach to Prison Ministry in the United States and Germany

Author : Daniel B. Lampe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643916655
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book God behind Bars: An Empirical Approach to Prison Ministry in the United States and Germany written by Daniel B. Lampe and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first empirical study on differences between prison ministries in the US and Germany enables a dialogue between chaplains of both countries. What can they learn from each other? What do they have in common – that thus has been transculturally tested? The divergent theological-philosophical backgrounds of the two criminal justice systems are presented along with their different accentuations of retributing punishment and rehabilitating restoration. Religious extremism of inmates and „switching“ of religious orientation in prisons are discussed, the roles of volunteers assessed, and promising restoration methods presented – such as the so-called „Circles“ or religion-related rehabilitation programs, which have been proven to reduce recidivism by changing inmates‘ mindsets. The book examines chaplains‘ working styles in ten fields of activity as well as their theological and political leanings, their job satisfaction and factors contributing to overload, their time management, and their „dreams“ of what could be done better.

Caged

Author : New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590819
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Caged written by New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors uses, gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of America's for-profit justice system. The story follows Omar, pulled back into the prison system after trying to lift his family out of poverty, who struggles to maintain a sense of humanity while fighting to keep his loved ones close. According to NJ.com, "From institutionalized racism to addiction to the prison-industrial complex, this is a play about a great many large, pressing social challenges, but at its core it is a play about one family and its struggles to remain united as their world steadily crumbles. Impactful, warm, and unrelenting, this play that began as an experiment turns out to be an excellent examination of the human cost of a harsh and inhospitable world." For every print copy of Caged purchased from Haymarket Books through June 1, Haymarket will donate a copy of the book to prisoners and their families working with the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium (NJ-STEP). All profits from the book will go to a prison re-entry fund run by The Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey to help the playwrights secure housing and continue their schooling upon release.