26 Years Behind Bars
26 Years Behind Bars

Author: Paul Laxton

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1528956249

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The book is written from the perspective of a participant observer. It is not strictly an autobiography or a history, although it has elements of both, as it would fail without them. It is intended for both the general reader and criminal justice professionals. My intention is that the book is educational, showing the prison system over three decades in the context of social, political and organisational change, in particular the impact of the decline of deference, the growth of public managerialism and the rise of political correctness. The trenchant opinions expressed are based on intellectual rumination, observation of human behaviour, and personal and professional experience. I have deliberately chosen a thematic approach for the book so that explanation and information work in tandem, giving a unique insight into the modern prison service and the workings of the public sector.

Inside
Inside

Author: Michael Santos

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780312343507

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From a federal inmate with two decades of continuous confinement comes a controversial expose of the shocking details of life in American prisons

Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison

Author: Jeff Smith

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1250058406

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A politician's humorous memoir of his year in federal prison, with a viable prescription for a more productive, cost-effective corrections system.

Women Behind Bars
Women Behind Bars

Author: Silja Talvi

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2007-11-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1580051952

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An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and administrators to offer insight into the societal impact of female incarceration. Original.

26 Years Behind Bars
26 Years Behind Bars

Author: Paul Laxton

Publisher: Austin Macauley

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781788788472

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The book is written from the perspective of a participant observer. It is not strictly an autobiography or a history, although it has elements of both, as it would fail without them. It is intended for both the general reader and criminal justice professionals. My intention is that the book is educational, showing the prison system over three decades in the context of social, political and organisational change, in particular the impact of the decline of deference, the growth of public managerialism and the rise of political correctness. The trenchant opinions expressed are based on intellectual rumination, observation of human behaviour, and personal and professional experience. I have deliberately chosen a thematic approach for the book so that explanation and information work in tandem, giving a unique insight into the modern prison service and the workings of the public sector.

Women Behind Bars
Women Behind Bars

Author: Wensley Clarkson

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2013-05-17

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1466845910

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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** They were once sweet little girls--sugar and spice, and everything nice. Now they're cold blooded criminals, behind the bars of America's most dangerous prisons--hardened women doing their time. how and why did they cross to the dark side? What makes women kill husbands, lovers, family, and innocent strangers? Step aside and meet: Patty: the prison beauty slaughtered her mother, father, and little brother after falling in love with an evil Svengali twenty years her senior. Michelle: She lovingly tends the flowers on the prison grounds. Only those who know her best know how she kicked her husband to death. Cynthia: A typical St. Louis girl--until she met a jailbird and embarked on a murderous rampage worthy of Natural Born Killers. Author Wensley Clarkson has used his unique, unlimited access to some of America's toughest prisons to reveal the shocking world of female criminals--from their illicit love affairs to race relations, prostitution, protection rackets, drug smuggling, and more. Plus: what happened to notorious criminals Amy Fisher and Pam Smart? Now their tawdry lived behind bars are revealed.

Twenty Years Behind Bars
Twenty Years Behind Bars

Author: Jeff Burkhart

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-11-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478392224

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"Shaken not stirred," we have all heard the saying. It is part of what makes Ian Fleming's super spy James Bond so super. It is not the fact that he drinks martinis, it is how he drinks them that matters. Cocktails are about style and in today's complicated world of drink many of us need a lifestyle guide. 20 Years Behind Bars is that guide; part trade manual and part psychological introspective, it combines real life observations (by a real life bartender) with facts and information in an amusing and irreverent fashion. Take one part Mr. Boston's bartending guide, one part Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a dash of Steve Dublanica's Waiter Rant, combine and you have the pure entertainment that is 20 Years Behind Bars.

Doing Time
Doing Time

Author: Bell Gale Chevigny

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1611451442

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A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing.

Life Sentences
Life Sentences

Author: Wilbert Rideau

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on their award-winning reporting for the Louisiana State Penitentiary's uncensored newsmagazine, The Angolite, Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg present the stark reality of life behind bars and the human, political, and fiscal costs of our long-running war on crime.

Mother California
Mother California

Author: Kenneth E. Hartman

Publisher: Atlas and Company

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1934633941

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"A magnificent inquiry into the human condition."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Thirty years ago, when Kenneth Hartman was nineteen, he murdered a homeless man in a Los Angeles park. Sentenced to life without parole, Hartman gradually evolved into a devoted husband, father, and prison reform activist. Mother California offers definite proof that there is no such thing as a life beyond redemption.