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Prison homicide : killing and dying in prison today / by Long, Joshua,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-306) and index.Killing and dying in prison -- Misunderstanding prison homicides -- Reporting and classifying deaths -- Comparing motivations -- Theories of prison violence -- Prison subcultures and convict justice -- Gang violence -- Prison riots -- Homicides of correctional officers -- Homicides committed by correctional officers -- Rare homicides : women, transgender, and juvenile prisoners -- Situational crime prevention in prison -- Making prisons safer."A rich, myth-dispelling analysis of the scope, nature, and patterns of prison homicides in the United States"--
Subjects: Prison homicide;
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American prisons : their past, present and future / by Musick, David,author.; Gunsaulus-Musick, Kristine,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- A brief history of imprisonment in America (1600-1900) : Imprisonment in colonial America ; American prisons after the revolution : State prisons; Federal prisons; Privatized prisons -- The twentieth-century prison-building binge : State prisons : Prison subcultures; Manufacturing and marketing fear of crime; Recent expansion of the prison-industrial complex ; Control units -- Federal prisons in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : Early federal prisons : Leavenworth; Atlanta; McNeil Island; Notable early federal inmates ; The building boom begins : Alacatraz; Marion ; The building boom accelerates : UNICOR, ADX -- Profiting from punishment: corporations and American prisons : Selling products and services : The prison telephone business; Transporting inmaters for profit; Profiting from prison healthcare ; Private financing for prisons : Lease-revenue bonds: public money goes to corrections corporations ; Profiting from inmate labor : For-profit corporations and inmate labor ; Privatized prisons : Inmate escapes, inmate-on-inmate violence and guard violence; Arguments for, and against, privatized prisons -- The final solution: capital punishment : Early methods of execution ; American methods of execution ; Capital punishment since 1977 : Executioners; The federal death penalty; A statistical look at capital punishment in the United States; The costs of capital punishment; Arguments in favor of capital punishment; Arguments against capital punishment -- Less visible prison minorities: women, children and the elderly : Female inmates : Female inmates and their children ; Sexual abuse of female inmates ; Children as inmates : Growth in long-term U.S. children's lock-ups; The character of children's prisons; Children held in adult lock-ups; Children and the American death penalty ; Elderly inmates : Growth in the elderly inmate population; Problems faced by elderly inmates and their keepers; Elderly female inmates; What should be done? -- Prison by-products: violence and disease : Prison rape : Prison rape; Abating prison rape ; Other forms of prison violence : Gangs and prison violence; Inmate-on-inmate violence; Inmate-on correctional officer violence; Correctional officer-on-inmate violence; Prison riots ; Prisons and disease : AIDS; Tuberculosis; Hepatitis; Skin infections; Phantom illnesses -- The future of prisons in the United States : Factors favoring growth ; Factors favoring shrinkage : About the death penalty and executions ; What can be done?Imprisonment has become big business in the United States. Using a "history of ideas" approach, this book examines the cultural underpinnings of prisons in the United States and explores how shared ideas about imprisonment evolve into a complex, loosely connected nationwide system of prisons that keeps enough persons to populate a small nation behind bars, razor wire and electrified fences. Tracing both the history of the prison and the very idea of imprisonment in the United States, this book provides students with a critical overview of American prisons and considers their past, their present and directions for the future.
Subjects: Prisons; Imprisonment; Corrections;
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History of Andersonville Prison / by Futch, Ovid L.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142) and index.1. The Power to Impress -- 2. Gross Mismanagement -- 3. Prison Conditions -- 4. Prison Life -- 5. The Raiders -- 6. Danger and Dissension -- 7. Medical Care -- 8. Trial and Judgment -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.In February 1864, five hundred Union prisoners of war arrived at the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Andersonville, as it was later known, would become legendary for its brutality and mistreatment, with the highest mortality rate--over 30 percent--of any Civil War prison. Fourteen months later, 32,000 men were imprisoned there. Most of the prisoners suffered greatly because of poor organization, meager supplies, the Federal government's refusal to exchange prisoners, and the cruelty of men supporting a government engaged in a losing battle for survival. Who was responsible for allowing so much squalor, mismanagement, and waste at Andersonville? Looking for an answer, Ovid Futch cuts through charges and countercharges that have made the camp a subject of bitter controversy. He examines diaries and firsthand accounts of prisoners, guards, and officers, and both Confederate and Federal government records (including the transcript of the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz, the alleged "fiend of Andersonville"). First published in 1968, this groundbreaking volume has never gone out of print.
Subjects: Andersonville Prison.;
© 1999, c1968., University of Florida Press,
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The prison healer : [electronic resource] : The prison healer series, book 1. by Noni, Lynette.; Illidge, Jeanette.;
Narrator: Jeanette Illidge.Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message from Kiva's family arrives, containing a single order: "Don't let her die. We are coming." Aware that the Trials will kill the sickly queen, Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in her place. If she succeeds, both she and the queen will be granted their freedom. But no one has ever survived. With an incurable plague sweeping Zalindov, a mysterious new inmate fighting for Kiva's heart, and a prison rebellion brewing, Kiva can't escape the terrible feeling that her trials have only just begun. From bestselling author Lynette Noni comes a dark, thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, and Sabaa Tahir.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 412490 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Young Adult Fiction.; Fantasy.; Romance.;
© 2021., HarperAudio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=6079941 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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America's prisons / by Lasky, Jack.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Prisons; Imprisonment; Alternatives to imprisonment; Criminals; Criminal justice, Administration of;
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The Scottish prisoner : [electronic resource] : Outlander: Lord John Grey series, book 3. by Gabaldon, Diana.; Woodman, Jeff.;
Narrator: Jeff Woodman.London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war, life is coming apart at the seams. In the remote Lake District, where he’s close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own, Jamie’s quiet existence is interrupted first by dreams of his lost wife, then by the appearance of an erstwhile comrade still fighting to rally the Irish. But Jamie has sworn off politics, fighting, and war. Until Lord John Grey shows up with a summons that will take him away from everything he loves—again. Lord John is in possession of explosive documents that expose a damning case of corruption against a British officer. But they also hint at a more insidious danger. Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling companions on the road to Ireland, a country whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets, and whose bogs hide the bones of the dead. -- provided by Amazon.com.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 444198 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Fantasy.; Historical Fiction.; Romance.;
© 2011., Recorded Books Inc.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=669404 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The prison industry : how it works and who profits / by Tylek, Bianca,author.; Worth Rises (Organization),issuing body.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-244) and index.Introduction -- Architecture + Construction -- Operations + Management -- Personnel -- Labor + Programs -- Equipment -- Data + Information -- Telecom -- Financial Services -- Food + Commissary -- Healthcare -- Transportation -- Community Corrections -- Conclusion."Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises--best known for campaigns that have revolutionized prison telecom and made prison and jail communication free in cities and states around the country--The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by overpolicing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance. Chapters on labor, telecom, healthcare, community corrections, and more explore the origin story of privatization for each sector and how much money is in it for the corporations involved. Stretching far beyond private prisons to look at all the sectors that benefit from incarceration, the authors illuminate the methods used to extract resources from public coffers and communities, which corporations are most active and how they partner with governments, and the harms these profit-based approaches to justice cause people, families, and communities. Ultimately, The Prison Industry makes a compelling case for dismantling the prison industry and prison abolition more broadly. It serves as a tool for the tearing down of our wholly oppressive carceral system--the ashes of which we can use to create a better world built on care, not cages." -- Baker & Taylor
Subjects: Prison-industrial complex;
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Indefinite : Doing time in jail. by Walker, Michael L.,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention centers, police lockups, and other temporary holding facilities are regularly overcrowded, poorly funded, and the buildings are often in disrepair. American jails admit over ten million people every year, but very little is known about what happens to them while they're locked away.Indefinite is an ethnographic study of a California county jail that reflects on what it means to do jail time and what it does to men. Michael L. Walker spent several extended spells in jail, having been arrested while trying to pay parking tickets in graduate school. This book is an intimate account of his experience and in it he shares the routines, rhythms, and subtle meanings that come with being incarcerated. Walker shows how punishment in jail is much more than the deprivation of liberties. It is, he argues, purposefully degrading. Jail creates a racial politics that organizes daily life, moves men from clock time to event time, normalizes trauma, and imbues residents with substantial measures of vulnerability. Deputies used self-centered management styles to address the problems associated with running a jail, some that magnified individual conflicts to potential group conflicts and others that created divisions between residents for the sake of control. And though not every deputy indulged, many gave themselves over to the pleasures of punishment.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Imprisonment.; Jails.; Prisoners.;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6822213 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Prisoners of the castle : [electronic resource] : An epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison. by Macintyre, Ben.; Macintyre, Ben.;
Narrator: Ben Macintyre.In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre’s telling, Colditz’s most famous names—like the indomitable Pat Reid—share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America’s oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.Prisoners of the Castle traces the war’s arc from within Colditz’s stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler’s war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told. -- provided by Amazon.com.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 377519 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Sociology.;
© 2022., Random House Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=8721159 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Prisoner of the state : the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang / by Zhao, Ziyang.; Bao, Pu,1967?-; Chiang, Renee.; Ignatius, Adi.; MacFarquhar, Roderick.;
The Tiananmen massacre. The student protests begin ; An editorial makes things worse ; Power struggle ; The crackdown ; The accusations fly ; The campaign against Zhao ; Zhao's talk with Gorbachev -- House arrest. Zhao becomes a prisoner ; The investigative report ; Zhao's lonely struggle -- The roots of China's economic boom. Conflicting views at the top ; An early setback ; Opening painfully to the world ; Finding a new approach ; Zhao and Hu clash ; Playing a trick on a rival ; One step at a time ; The economy gets too hot ; The magic of free trade ; Freedom on the farm ; The coastal regions take off ; Coping with corruption -- War in the Politburo. Hu Yaobang "resigns" ; Zhao walks the line ; The ideologues ; Preparing for the main event -- A tumultuous year. After the Congress ; Panic buying and bank runs ; A series of missteps ; The problem with prices ; Reforms take a hit ; Zhao in retreat ; The campaign to overthrow Zhao -- How China must change. Deng's view on political reform ; Hu's view on political reform ; How Zhao's view evolved ; The old guard fights back ; The way forward -- A brief biography of Zhao Ziyang.Gives readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and was dethroned for his efforts.
Subjects: Zhao, Ziyang.; Prime ministers; Political prisoners; Statesmen; Zhao, Ziyang.; Premiers ministres; Prisonniers politiques; Hommes d'EÌtat;
© 2009., Simon & Schuster,
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