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Author : John Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The State Of The Prisons In England And Wales written by John Howard and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232837
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Pain and Retribution written by David Wilson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a former prison governor, 'Pain and Retribution' charts the history of British prisons, from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day.
Author : Ruan O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716531418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Special Category written by Ruan O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major 3-part work that is the definitive history of Irish Republican prisoners detained in England's maximum security prisons during the modern 'Troubles'. Based on private correspondence, declassified government documents, international media reports, and memoirs of key protagonists, this book tells the story of all the major riots, roof top protests, sabotage attacks and escape attempts undertaken by the IRA, as well as the little-known 'blanket protest' in several prison locations in England. Volume 2 tells the full story of the Wormwood Scrubs 'riot' of August 1979, Brixton breakout of December 1980 and the pivotal Albany 'mutiny' of May 1983, told for the firs time using fresh eye-witness accounts as well official and public sources. This ground breaking book confirms that the 'prison war' in England was a far more important IRA theatre of action than previously believed. -- Publisher description.
Author : Frankie Owens
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1904380832
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Little Book of Prison written by Frankie Owens and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koestler Platinum Award Winner (judged by author and comedian Will Self). As Frankie Owens writes in The Little Book of Prison (LBP), Society wants to know about prison life, an interesting place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there. --An easy-to-read prison survival guide of do's and don'ts. --Perfect for anyone facing trial for an offence that may lead to imprisonment, their families and friends --Packed with humour as well as more serious items --Backed by prisoner support organizations --Straightforward and highly entertaining. Frankie started writing the LBP from day two of entering prison as a first-time offender. He had no idea how the system or a prison worked. He was clueless about it all and it was hard for him going in and frightening for the family and loved ones he left behind. The writing began as self-help and as the days progressed it occurred to Frankie that the LBP would prove useful to first-time offenders as well as other prisoners and help them get through what is surely one of the most difficult times in their lives. It also motivated him to get out on the prison wing and find out as much as possible about his new home. There are a lot of books about people in prison, people in far worse places than Frankie was and on far longer sentences. But the LBP is a book about prison not people, and will help new inmates, their friends and families get to know what to expect from the system. The LBP is a masterpiece in comic writing but somehow gets through to people with serious information in a way that more formal texts cannot. Already organizations connected to the criminal justice system are beginning to acknowledge that Frankie Owen's LBP is an ideal read for people facing the trauma of a first prison sentence. It will also be of considerable interest to other prisoners or people working in a custodial setting. "If people want to know what prison is like it's for them, if people need to know what happens in prison it's definitely for them". Frankie Owens was prisoner A1443CA at Her Majesty's pleasure until 2 August 2011. Publisher's note.
Author : Dr Amanda Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008311455
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Prison Doctor written by Dr Amanda Brown and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Extraordinary’ Daily Mail As seen on BBC Breakfast Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.
Author : Julian Le Vay
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447313224
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Competition for Prisons written by Julian Le Vay and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a century has passed since the Thatcher government launched one of its most controversial reforms: privately run prisons. This book offers an assessment of the successes and failures of that initiative, comparing public and private prisons, analyzing the possible and claimed benefits of competition, and looking closely at how well the government has managed the unusual quasi-market that the privatization push created. Drawing on first-person interviews with key players and his own experience working in prison finance, Julian Le Vay presents the most valuable look yet at the results of prison privatization for government, citizens, and prisoners.
Author : Chris Atkins
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1838950168
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book A Bit of a Stretch written by Chris Atkins and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' The Times 'Heart-breaking.' Sunday Times Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service. Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe. With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to senior officials bent on endless reform, this powerful memoir uncovers the horrifying reality behind the locked gates. Filled with dark humour and shocking stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals why our creaking prison system is sorely costing us all - and why you should care.
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book English Prisons Under Local Government written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonas Cope
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684485371
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book British Romanticism and Prison Reform written by Jonas Cope and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Carl Cattermole
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147356588X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Prison: A Survival Guide written by Carl Cattermole and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside. Contains: Blood – but not as much as you might imagine Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap Tears – because prison has created a mental health crisis Humanity – and how to stop the institution destroying it Featuring contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby. ‘Essential reading’ Will Self ‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’ Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London ‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’ Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’
Author : Allan Brodie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1848021828
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book English Prisons written by Allan Brodie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, the prison is an unfamiliar institution and life 'inside' is beyond our experience. However, more than 60,000 people now live in our gaols, some serving their sentences in buildings with Victorian or more ancient origins, others in prisons dating from the last twenty years. 'English Prisons: An Architectural History' is the result of the first systematic written and photographic survey of prisons since the early 20th century. It traces the history of the purpose-built prison and its development over the past 200 years. Over 130 establishments that make up the current prison estate and over 100 former sites that have surviving buildings or extensive documentation have been investigated, institutions ranging from medieval castles and military camps to country houses that have been taken over and adapted for penal use. The Prison Service granted the project team unprecedented access to all its establishments, allowing the compilation of an archive of more than 5,000 images ad 250 research files. The team was allowed to go anywhere, to photograph almost anything (except where this could compromise security) and to speak to any inmate. A selection of the images from the archive illustrates this book.
Author : Alyson Brown
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830177
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book English Society and the Prison written by Alyson Brown and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social history analyses a period in which the modern prison faced serious challenges both on practical & philosophical grounds. These included the use of prison to victimise the poor, the disaffected & political activists, & the failure to establish the prison as a satisfactory means of punishment.
Author : Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania-German in the British Military Prisons of the Revolutionary War written by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783273317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Shades of the Prison House written by Harry Potter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Over the centuries, prisons - from castle dungeons to "lockups" to "penitentiaries" to gaols -have changed radically in name, conditions, attributes and functions, as well as in their character and rationale. Prisons have served many aims: detention, deterrence, punishment, reformation and rehabilitation, all in varying degrees. Yet while prisons and their purposes have been transformed, the same debates on imprisonment have continually recurred. Concerns about overcrowding and over-pampering, security and safety have been expressed from the very beginning, and modern notions that prison might serve a purpose other than containment or punishment were espoused long before the eighteenth century. Drawing on letters, treatises, personal accounts, histories, legal and official reports and studies of prison architecture and design, this book tells the story of prisons, prison life and those who experienced it, be they prisoners, governors, chaplains, warders, reformers or advocates. As entertainingas it is informative, the book examines the nature and quality of imprisonment over the last fifteen hundred years, before surveying present problems and concluding with thoughts on future directions. HARRY POTTER is a former fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a practising barrister specialising in criminal defence. Author of Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Brief History of the Common Law (Boydell Press, 2015), he wrote and presented an award-winning series on the same subject for the BBC. He has also authored Edinburgh under Siege: 1571-1573 (2003), Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002), Hanging and Heresy (1994) and Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England from the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993). Before being called to the Bar, he worked as a prison chaplain, largely with long-termand life-sentence prisoners.
Author : Lady Constance Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prisons & Prisoners written by Lady Constance Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 January 1910 Lytton disguised herself as a working-class seamstress, assumed the name Jane Warton, and led a suffrage demonstration demanding the vote for women. During the demonstration she hurled a rock wrapped in brown paper at the house of the governor of Walton Gaol. For this act, she was arrested, tried, and sentenced to fourteen days in jail. Like many suffragettes, she refused to eat while in custody and was forcibly fed, which involved forcing the mouth open, running a tube down the throat or through the nose, and pouring liquid into it. The procedure was both painful and dangerous. Lytton's decision to conceal her upper-class identity was a deliberately calculated act. She was devoted to the cause of female suffrage and was appalled at the class-differentiated treatment women (regardless of their offence) received in jail. This is an account of her prison experience and the differences when she was arrested as a middle class women and when she was arrested as Lady Constance Lytton, the daughter of an earl.
Author : Allyson Collins
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564320667
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom written by Allyson Collins and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1992 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Bronson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782192506
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside written by Charles Bronson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie has taken his 24 years of experience of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved regularly around the prisons of the British Isles he has sampled all that prison life has to offer, taking in both the historic and pre-historic buildings that comprise Britain's infamous prison system. It's all in here from the correct way to brew vintage prison 'hooch' and how to keep the screws from finding it, to the indispensable culinary methods required to make prison food edible. Read about Charlie's special taming techniques for prison wildlife such as spiders, rats and cockroaches, creatures that may be your only friends on long stretches in solitary. Also Charlie shows how to plan and prepare for marriage inside what can be seen as a less than romantic setting. With over 70,000 people (and rising) currently residing at Her Majesty's pleasure, Charlie Bronson's "Good Prison Guide" is essential for young offenders and 'old lags' alike. Make sure you don't get nicked without it.
