Prison Officers And Their World

Author : Kelsey Kauffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Officers and Their World written by Kelsey Kauffman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s were tumultuous years in American prisons, beginning with the bloody uprising at Attica and ending with the even bloodier one at New Mexico State. The Massachusetts prison system was one of the most seriously afflicted. Murders, suicides, riots, strikes, and mass escapes were only the most obvious manifestations of a system in turmoil.

Author : Elaine M Crawley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113599174X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Prison Work written by Elaine M Crawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel about their work. In focusing on how prison officers feel about their work this book makes a number of interesting revelations - about the essentially domestic nature of much of the work they do, about the degree of emotional labour invested in it and about the performance nature of many of the day-to-day interactions between officers and prisoners. Finally, the book follows the prison officer home after work, showing how the prison can spill over into their home lives and family relationships. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (including interviews with prison officers' wives and children as well as prison officers themselves), this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in how prisons and organisations more generally operate in practice.

Author : Alison Liebling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136840222
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prison Officer written by Alison Liebling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly updated edition of The Prison Officer (2001). The aim of this book is to provide an accessible and interesting guide to the world and work of the Prison Officer, showing the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. So little has been written on prison officers (in comparison to prisoners) and this book addresses the gap. This book will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in the work of a prison officer, and essential reading for any established and aspiring officers.

Author : Shane Bauer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223602
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Prison written by Shane Bauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.

Author : Helen Arnold
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031410610
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Officers written by Helen Arnold and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Peter Finn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addressing Correctional Officer Stress written by Peter Finn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Jepsen
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781432769314
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guarded written by Susan Jepsen and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman brave enough to walk out on an abusive husband then enters a paramilitary culture of mostly male prison officers in order to support and raise their infant son. At twenty-two Susan Jepsen found the strength to walk out on an abusive husband with only twenty dollars in her pocket and their infant son on her side. For the next twenty-seven years, Susan had a successful career in the Department of Corrections and achieved four separate promotions - despite her continuing struggles in this male dominated world of sexual harassment and political retaliation. "Guarded" is the true expose of an environment that fosters manipulation and nepotism, where your most dangerous enemy is not the male prisoners you guard, but your fellow staff. In that stress filled world Susan wanted to rely on her fellow officers to watch her back and while that sometimes was possible in the cells and prison corridors with the inmates, it was not always possible in the back offices and casework rooms with her fellow staff. Susan had to learn the hard way to watch her own back against the unwanted sexual advances of her fellow male - and sometimes female - staff. "Guarded" gives an intimate, insider's view of the hidden world of prison staff, a world society does not want to think about, a secret world in which mainstream society is not welcome.

Author : Gina Marie Rivera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681872667
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman in a Man's World written by Gina Marie Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you work as a correctional officer in a maximum-security prison, you run the risk of death every day. You can feel the evil all around. When those gates close behind you, you don't know if you are going to walk out alive at the end of your shift. You learn to really value and appreciate every single second that you have. *** Gina Marie Rivera has had to literally learn to fight to survive, not because she wanted to, but because she had to. Rivera grew up the victim of sex abuse from a family member. When she was eleven, she vowed "No more!" and fought back using only her bare hands as weapons. She fought so hard that her would-be attacker left her alone. Gina never realized that she would have to fight for her life yet another time. She fought off not only one inmate, but two! Gina saved her life and the life of her male partner, her coworker. *** Gina is a retired correctional officer who worked in one of the most notorious all-male prisons in Southern California. She is excited to share with you her new book, A Woman in a Man's World, and hopes to empower, motivate, and inspire women everywhere, especially her fellow sisters and brothers in green and in law enforcement.

Author : Ted Conover
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400033098
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newjack written by Ted Conover and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing. “Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer himself. The result is an unprecedented work of eyewitness journalism: the account of Conover's year-long passage into storied Sing Sing prison as a rookie guard, or "newjack." As he struggles to become a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, and attempts, in the face of overwhelming odds, to balance decency with toughness. Through his insights into the harsh culture of prison, the grueling and demeaning working conditions of the officers, and the unexpected ways the job encroaches on his own family life, we begin to see how our burgeoning prison system brutalizes everyone connected with it. An intimate portrait of a world few readers have ever experienced, Newjack is a haunting journey into a dark undercurrent of American life.

Author : Martha Henderson Hurley
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466591579
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Corrections written by Martha Henderson Hurley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system. Presenting transcribed interviews of corrections leaders, it offered a comprehensive survey of co