Prison Truth

Author : William J. Drummond
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520298365
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Truth written by William J. Drummond and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.

Author : Adam Dalton Reich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262662
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Truth written by Adam Dalton Reich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam D. Reich draws on his experiences working with juvenile prison inmates to examine how poor and disenfranchised young men learn about masculinity and identity.

Author : Roger Chiang
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055703115X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travails To Truth: My Peace From Prison written by Roger Chiang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to "My Peace I Offer You." "Travails To Truth" is a jarring yet heartening memoir about Roger's tenuous twelve months in prison. Now it's Roger's turn to tell his side of the story: Roger is maliciously persecuted by a police foe. Imprisoned in the cosmos of abuse and corruption, prison officials coerce Roger to prevent him from being interviewed for a documentary about his sister's murder. Meanwhile, Roger has enrolled in a prison drug program that is a guise for mind control. Then, just months shy of his release, Roger is condemned to solitary confinement for fighting although prison officials are guilty. Roger boldly fights back by blowing the whistle and an unlikely ally comes to his aid. Still, Roger shows that his human spirit will not be broken by adversity. Join Roger as he sheds a sobering light on America, calls for changes to the beleagured criminal justice system and tells an awe-inspiring story about faith and God.

Author : Michael Rickenbaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882673001
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Into Prison written by Michael Rickenbaker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime is one of the hottest issues facing our nation today. With more than one million people behind bars, the prison population is increasing some ten times faster than the general population, & society is desperately searching for answers. BREAKING INTO PRISON, a comprehensive guide for ministry to the incarcerated, challenges the millions who are concerned about crime in our society. The only book of its kind currently on the market, its thirteen stirring chapters & study guide will provide you with Biblical solutions that work when man's ways fail. Well-organized & easy to read, BREAKING INTO PRISON is an essential textbook for all Christians regardless of their denominational affiliation. Experience the sights & sounds as we journey through today's prisons. To order: Check or M.O. to Spirit & Truth Pub., 5100 Wyoming Ave., Nashville, TN 37209, $7.95 each plus $2.00 shipping for 1st book, $1.00 for each additional book, or phone (615) 297-5421.

Author : Paula M. Ditton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons written by Paula M. Ditton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr Martin Luther King
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780063425811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter from a Birmingham Jail written by Dr Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : The Secret Prison Governor
Publisher : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1802794352
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Prison Governor written by The Secret Prison Governor and published by Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unedited, uncensored and unbelievable: this book shows the harsh reality of life behind bars from a real prison governor who spares no details. How do you bring order to the lawless? The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and street-level drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers. Since starting as a rookie, he has experienced the reality of the UK’s harsh prison system and the hard challenge of ruling those within it. In his own words, the Secret Prison Governor spares no detail of prison life, whether that’s breaking up shiv fights, crushing vast underworld networks, negotiating with hostage-takers or dealing with full-scale cellblock gang wars. This is the truth of what life is like behind bars.

Author : John Pfaff
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096921
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locked In written by John Pfaff and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pfaff, let there be no doubt, is a reformer...Nonetheless, he believes that the standard story--popularized in particular by Michelle Alexander, in her influential book, The New Jim Crow--is false. We are desperately in need of reform, he insists, but we must reform the right things, and address the true problem."--Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reform In the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate had held steady for over 100 years. Yet today, though the US is home to only about 5 percent of the world's population, we hold nearly one quarter of its prisoners. Mass incarceration is now widely considered one of the biggest social and political crises of our age. How did we get to this point? Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations-the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons-tell us much less than we think. Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no choice but to think differently about how to deal with people convicted of violent crimes-and why some people are violent in the first place. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national catastrophe, Locked In transforms our understanding of what ails the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.

Author : Maryam Rostampour
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414382200
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captive in Iran written by Maryam Rostampour and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches. In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the radical—and dangerous—step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, two courageous Iranian women recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to shine His light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything and showing love to those in despair.

Author : Ebony Roberts
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006287666X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Prison Made and Unmade written by Ebony Roberts and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Notable Memoir by the New York Times Medium’s Books to Help You Transition Into 2020 With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man—a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships. Ebony’s parents were high school sweethearts and married young. By the time Ebony was born, the marriage was disintegrating. As a little girl she witnessed her parents’ brutal verbal and physical fights, fueled by her father’s alcoholism. Then her father tried to kill her mother. Those experiences drastically affected the way Ebony viewed love and set the pattern for her future romantic relationships. Despite being an educated and strong-minded woman determined not to repeat the mistakes of her parents—she would have a fairytale love—Ebony found herself drawn to bad-boys: men who cheated; men who verbally abused her; men who disappointed her. Fed up, she swore to wait for the partner God chose for her. Then she met Shaka Senghor. Though she felt an intense spiritual connection, Ebony struggled with the idea that this man behind bars for murder could be the good love God had for her. Through letters and visits, she and Shaka fell deeply in love. Once Shaka came home, Ebony thought the worst was behind them. But Shaka’s release was the beginning of the end. The Love Prison Made and Unmade is heartfelt. It reveals powerful lessons about love, sacrifice, courage, and forgiveness; of living your highest principles and learning not to judge someone by their worst acts. Ultimately, it is a stark reminder of the emotional cost of American justice on human lives—the partners, wives, children, and friends—beyond the prison walls.