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Behind Bars
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 95.00This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls prisons, and the post incarceration experience. more...
Against All Hope
Encounter Books 2001; US$ 16.95Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cuba?s infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion). His life in Castro?s gulag was a hell of violence and disease, putrid food and squalid living conditions, forced labor... more...
In the Place of Justice
Profile 2011; US$ 12.78In 1961, at the age of nineteen, young, black, eighth-grade dropout, Wilbert Rideau, despaired of the dead-end and small-town future his life held for him. He set out to rob the local bank and in an ill-concieved out and bungled robbery he murdered the bank teller a young, white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession at the local... more...
Willow in a Storm
Scarletta Press 2007; US$ 10.95In this moving memoir, James Peter Taylor invites us to share in the painful and realistic struggles of prison survival, where he lived from age 25 in the 1950s until his release in the mid-1990s. Now an old man, he reflects on how he made it for so many years when many other lifers die in prison. He survives, he believes, not by being a stable, sturdy... more...
Depraved and Disorderly
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 32.00This innovative book looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of convict women's lives in colonial society. more...
Controversial Issues In Prisons
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 158.00Controversial Issues in Prisons is a textbook designed to explore eight of the most controversial aspects of imprisonment in England and Wales today. It is primarily a book about the people who are sent to prison and what happens to them when inside. more...
Mad Bomber Melville
Arissa Media Group, LLC 2007; US$ 12.99A white, working-class revolutionary, Sam Melville?s guerrilla bombings set in motion a flood of armed radical actions across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Once imprisoned, Melville became a key organizer and a crucial element of the notorious Attica prison riots, uniting prisoners across racial barriers and making the ultimate... more...
The Ambiguous Embrace
Princeton University Press 2002; US$ 37.50This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting human needs. As Charles Glenn shows in this book, faith-based schools and social agencies have been particularly effective, especially in meeting the... more...
The Big House in a Small Town
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 35.00The prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s, combined with the recent economic decline, has led to an interesting phenomenon: where towns once fought against becoming the home of a prison, they now fight to land oneÑeven maximum security prisons. Some towns have put together lobbying packagesÑsuch as land, utility upgrades, and even cashÑto convince corrections... more...
Women Behind Bars
Seal Press 2007; US$ 15.95More and more womenmothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sistersare doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there’s been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is... more...









