Sentenced To Remember

Author : William Kornbluth
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223300
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentenced to Remember written by William Kornbluth and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description of the Nazi "selection" days contains some of the most terrifying events in the memoir.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714886
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Memory written by Petina Gappah and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.

Author : Jo Ann Schneider Farris
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312939648
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un - Sentenced For Life written by Jo Ann Schneider Farris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's complicated." No, I'm complicated. Is there anyone like me? Is there anyone out there who is Jewish, who was attracted to the love of the Jesus Movement, who worked as a teacher in a Pentecostal Christian school, who lived in a Christian commune, who attended a deaf church, who served for years with Jews for Jesus as a volunteer and also a missionary, who spoke in hundreds of churches, who worked for Focus on the Family, who led a cause to expose the "wrongs" of Jews for Jesus, who also taught skating for years, who raised her children as secular Jews, who sought G-d in Orthodox Judaism, whose husband almost died in a horrible accident, who unschooled her children, and who became "sort of famous" because of her writing about figure skating? Perhaps Jonah and I also have something in common... I do hope that whoever reads my story will enjoy getting to know me and at the same time be entertained. Happy reading! JO ANN

Author : Margaret E. Leigey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813569494
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Men written by Margaret E. Leigey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account of a group of aging inmates imprisoned for at least twenty years, with virtually no chance of release. These men make up one of the most marginalized segments of the contemporary U.S. prison population. Considered too dangerous for rehabilitation, ignored by prison administrators, and overlooked by courts disinclined to review such sentences, these prisoners grow increasingly cut off from family and the outside world. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-five such prisoners, Leigey gives voice to these extremely marginalized inmates and offers a look at how they struggle to cope. She reveals, for instance, that the men believe that permanent incarceration is as inhumane as capital punishment, calling life without parole “the hard death penalty.” Indeed, after serving two decades in prison, some wished that they had received the death penalty instead. Leigey also recounts the ways in which the prisoners attempt to construct meaningful lives inside the bleak environment where they will almost certainly live out their lives. Every state in the union (except Alaska) has the life-without-parole sentencing option, despite its controversial nature and its staggering cost to the taxpayer. The Forgotten Men provides a much-needed analysis of the policies behind life-without-parole sentencing, arguing that such sentences are overused and lead to serious financial and ethical dilemmas.

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Legislative Council written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New South Wales Royal Commission on the Case of Prisoner George Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regina Versus George Dean written by New South Wales Royal Commission on the Case of Prisoner George Dean and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
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Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Halpern v. Jacoby) (Halpern v. Jacoby) (Halpern v. Jacoby) (Hamilton v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.) (Hamilton v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.) (Hamilton v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.) (Hamilton v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.) (Matter of Hargrove) (Matter of Hargrove) (Matter of Hargrove) (Matter of Hargrove) (Matter of Hargrove) (Matter of Hargrove) (Herman v. Chal Associates, Inc.) (Herman v. Chal Associates, Inc.) (Herman v. Chal Associates, Inc.)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1130 pages
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Author : Sarah Maria Victor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Life Story of Sarah M. Victor for Sixty Years written by Sarah Maria Victor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amber Portwood
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1618689606
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Too Late written by Amber Portwood and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amber Portwood debuted on MTV’s hit reality series 16 & Pregnant, no one could have predicted that the teenager from Anderson, Indiana with the dry sense of humor would go on to become one of the most controversial young celebrities in reality TV history. But soon after the Amber stepped into the public eye, her life spiraled into chaos. From her struggles with anxiety, depression and addiction to her brutal onscreen fights with her boyfriend, Amber seemed a troubled young woman destined to destroy herself. And that was all before she shocked everyone by sending herself to prison for seventeen months! But behind Amber Portwood’s shocking behavior is a story the cameras never captured. It’s a story of hardship and hope, of relationships torn apart by tragedy and addiction and put back together with strength, love and determination. After years of losing herself in a daze of sex, drugs and depression, Amber made the decision to stand up and do whatever it took to save her life, her family, and herself. With her trademark honesty and dry sense of humor, Amber tells the real story of how she learned to deal with the demons that nearly destroyed her. Never Too Late sends a powerful message that no matter how far down a person might fall, it’s never too late to get back up and change the future.