Author : Miguel Piñero
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 080908659X
In the dayroom of the House of Detention, a group of young, predominantly black and Puerto Rican convicts react, individually and as a precariously maintained community, to the arrival of a young white child molester.
Author : K. C. Carceral
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN :
This unique book provides accurate descriptions of prisons and prison life, written by a prisoner sentenced to life, who uses the pseudonym "K. C. Carceral" to hide his identity for protection. With the assistance of editors Thomas Bernard, Leanne F. Alarid, Bruce Bikle, and Alene Bikle, this book presents a gripping, and often graphic, portrayal of life in prison. This narrative presentation of such topics as prison violence, friendships, sexual mores, and serving time includes graphic language and situations. Through the powerful personal experiences of the author, readers are better equipped to develop informed opinions about the American prison system. Inspired to write about his experiences in prison, Carceral sought the help of noted academics, including Thomas Bernard, to create a powerful and informative narrative. This is the first textbook written by a life-sentenced inmate. Bernard, along with editors Leanne F. Alarid, Bruce Bikle and Alene Bikle developed the manuscript to ensure its suitability for classroom use in colleges and universities. The wide range of topics covered includes entrance into prison; prison life, including violence in prisons; dealing with time; prison politics and economics; sex, racism, retaliation, and gangs.
Author : John Kinney
Publisher :
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2019-03-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781799245070
A cautionary tale of one man's quest for redemption, this memoir breaks down the bars on prison survival. Convicted of bank robbery and drug trafficking, we follow the federal inmate into a world of racial tension, extreme violence, and drug addicted predators. Spoken from the inmates perspective, readers get a harsh look at the realities of being locked up.
Author : H. Jack Griswold
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Four inmates on the crime of American prisons today.
Author : Michael G. Flaherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231555059
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs, this book reveals what time does to prisoners and what prisoners do to time. Carceral and Flaherty consider the connection between the subjective dimensions of time and the existential circumstances of imprisonment. Convicts find that their experience of time has become deeply distorted by the rhythm and routines of prison and by how authorities ensure that an inmate’s time is under their control. They become obsessed with the passage of time and preoccupied with regaining temporal autonomy, creating elaborate strategies for modifying their perception of time. To escape the feeling that their lives lack forward momentum, prisoners devise distinctive ways to mark the passage of time, but these tactics can backfire by intensifying their awareness of temporality. Providing rich and nuanced analysis grounded in the distinctive voices of diverse prisoners, The Cage of Days examines how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.
Author : Love Forever Sincerely Yours
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1665563966
“... highly encouraged... instructed... Truthful Wisdom and sound... understandable and infected “... inviting and overcoming... inspiration and heart gripping... refreshing fast pace reading...” Prison eyes is a walk into prisons of long lost love one’s. Many of us have someone that’s behind bars. Follow Love Forever as he take you into the very eyes of prison. Watch the suffer and pain unfold right before your eyes. Journey through with Love Forever as he take you through the reality of understanding the pain that your love one’s suffer. Feel the devastation as he take your hand and show you the forgotten and the everyday trails that take place in the eyes that have inspired so many to flee from a life of sin, the prison eyes.
Author : Lou Stanley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493773978
Dan Powers grew up the hard way. At age ten, he became the youngest prisoner ever incarcerated at the Illinois State Reformatory for Boys. His crime: arson. Most juvenile arsonists would have had psychiatric evaluation, but Dan's parents were too poor to pay for a shrink, so the judge sent him to reform school. Once you're in “The System” the road ahead is rough.Dan learned to fight in order to survive—criminal behavior that had never occurred to him before. He also learned that he was smarter than the average kid in the joint—graduating from grade school at eleven and high school at fifteen. Definitely not your average juvenile delinquent, but despite his “smarts” he graduated to an even more vicious maximum security reform school, followed by stints in Joliet State Prison, a couple of work farms, and finally San Quentin Prison for crimes ranging from petty theft, burglary, bank robbery, to manslaughter.Suddenly, his criminal behavior stopped. He married a wonderful woman, became a computer engineer, then retired. That's when trouble came knocking. After 30 years as a model citizen, Dan was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Four years of legal wrangling and half of his life savings later, the judge ruled that no crime had been committed. “Case dismissed.” The stress of the ordeal was too much for his wife. After she died, Dan vowed to get his money back, plus a lot more to finance revenge on the cops, the prosecutors, and others who'd tried to ruin his life.Dan Powers takes no prisoners. He's intelligent, cunning and vicious. He fears nothing, no one. He's out for revenge and that's exactly what he'll get.
Author : Kenneth Winter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781736715505
Paul was an unlikely candidate to become the apostle to the Gentiles ? until the day he unexpectedly encountered Jesus. You are probably familiar with that part of his story, and perhaps much of what transpired in his life after that. But two-thirds of his life story is not recorded in detail, though Paul gives us some hints in his letters. God is always at work in our lives; often before we realize it. The same can be said of Paul. Through this fictional novel, we'll explore how God may have used those unrecorded portions of his life to prepare him for the mission that was being set before him. We'll follow him from his early years in Tarsus through his final days in Rome.Throughout those years, Paul spent more time in a prison cell than we are ever told. It was a place where God continued to work in and through him. The mission never stopped because he was in prison; it simply took on a different form. The same is true of us. Our circumstances may change, but the mission doesn't. Allow yourself to be challenged as you experience a story of God's mission - through the eyes of a prisoner who ran the race that was put before him - and the faithfulness of God through it all.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759527713
In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
Author : Aleatha Romig
Publisher : Romig Works LLC
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0988489163
What was Tony thinking? A Consequences reading companion for Consequences. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated first companion to the suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, and choices and consequences. What was Tony thinking? Control? Acquisition? Domination? Love? BEHIND HIS EYES CONSEQUENCES explores significant scenes as well as behind-the-scenes moments from the first book of the Consequences series. Not a total re-write, this companion explores the mind of the man who thought he set the rules and delivered the consequences. From the beginning. Anthony Rawlings has the perfect world: money, influence, and power. Everything in his life is and has always been planned, executed, and predicted...until Claire. How long can he deny what is right before him? Experience the rare opportunity to see this esteemed man’s world change, from behind his eyes. It is always darkest before the light. Through significant scenes, experience the dark journey into the mind of the man who believes that he controls everything yet controls nothing. Share his thoughts as glitches are overcome and accidents are survived. For the avid reader of the Consequences series, it is recommended that this companion be read after Consequences, Truth, Convicted, Revealed and Beyond the Consequences for more insight into the man who: “Once upon a time, signed a napkin that he knew was a contract. As an esteemed businessman, he forgot one very important rule. He forgot to read the fine print. It wasn’t an acquisition to own another person as he’d previously assumed. It was an agreement to acquire a soul.” —Aleatha Romig, CONVICTED
