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Suicide and self-harm in prisons and jails
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Christine Tartaro |
"Police and corrections personnel must always be mindful of the possibility that those in their custody may attempt suicide or commit an act of self-mutilation. Persons housed in prisons, jails, and … |
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The new Jim Crow
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Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander |
This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race… |
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Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America
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Jeremy Travis |
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the f… |
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Life After Death
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Damien Echols |
The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row.
In 1993, teenagers Damien… |
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Gang of One
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Gary Mulgrew |
"Gang of one is the remarkable true story of one man's journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to his son in England and haunted … |
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Reading with Patrick
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Michelle Kuo |
Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one o… |
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Orange is the new black
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Piper Kerman |
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, the author barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Co… |
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Wanted
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Hoke, Chris (Prison chaplain) |
"Interweaving his own story with ... vignettes and gritty experiences in hidden places, a jail chaplain and minister to ... gang and migrant worker communities chronicles his spiritual journey to the… |
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Orange is the new black
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Piper Kerman |
This is a compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women's prison. With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, the author barely resembles the reckles… |
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The maximum security book club
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Mikita Brottman |
"A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them--Ora… |
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Boy with a knife
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Jean R. Trounstine |
"Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States. On any given day, ten thousand youth are detained or incarcerated in adult jail… |
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Sometimes amazing things happen
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Elizabeth Ford |
Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. I… |
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Kingpin
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Richard Stratton |
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Kingpin tell… |
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God in captivity
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Tanya Erzen |
It is by now well known that the United States' incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are incre… |
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True Story
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Michael Finkel |
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a de… |
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But they all come back
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Jeremy Travis |
xxvii, 391 p. : 23 cm |
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Conduct under fire
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John Glusman |
A gripping chronicle of courage in captivity, of sacrifice and survival, Conduct Under Fire recounts the fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of the author’s father and th… |
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The Road
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Jack London |
"The Road" is an autobiographical memoir presenting stories from the time that Jack London spent as a hobo in the late 19th century. |
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The least worst place
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Karen J. Greenberg |
In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's prepa… |
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Slavery by another name
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Douglas A. Blackmon |
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civi… |
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