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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
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Lois Ahrens |
One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going ev… |
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Resistance Behind Bars
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Victoria Law |
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… |
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Escape from Camp 14
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Blaine Harden |
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped
North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Sta… |
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The big house in a small town
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Eric J. Williams |
This work is an examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. The prison boo… |
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Challenging the prison-industrial complex
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Stephen J. Hartnett |
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners inste… |
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Offender rehabilitation
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Gwen Robinson |
Insightful, relevant and comprehensive, this title explains how offender rehabilitation has developed historically and in recent years. |
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Getting life
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Michael Morton |
"On August 13, 1986 ... Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed--and the Williamson County S… |
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From the war on poverty to the war on crime
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Elizabeth Kai Hinton |
"In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's la… |
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Punishment in America
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Cyndi Banks |
From Puritan ducking stools to boot camps and supermax prisons, Punishment in America investigates the evolution of punishment in the United States. Intriguing inquiries into penitentiaries, parole, … |
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Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
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Александр Исаевич Солженицын |
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-… |
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The Innocent Man
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John Grisham |
Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major leagu… |
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