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Author: Mark Dow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-06-14
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780520239425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe freelance writer and poet takes an unprecedented look inside the secret and repressive world of U.S. immigration prisons.
Author: Luanne Bruckner
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2006-03-14
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1452029199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLawrence and Luanne Bruckner live in Thomson, daily watching the $142M concrete complex sit empty-waiting silently for the 1800 prisoners and 761 correctional officers the State of Illinois promised to the depressed area in 1999. Lawrence is a graduate of Trinity college (CT) earning a BA, and MA in three years. He added a JD degree from the College of William and Mary and practiced law for thirty years He also served fourteen years in the Army Reserves as a JAG officer. Luanne is a tax expert who traces her heritage to the Mayflower and belongs to many hereditary organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was her inbred sense of justice and love of the unique American dream of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness that spurred Lawrence to compile this story on human waste. A life is a terrible thing to waste. This work will be followed by a study on wasting youth in schools designed to serve the adults and a third project will examine waste in the complex transportation system run by cities, villages, counties, states, federal toll-ways. etc. A final study will tackle the welfare system that destroys the human, spirit of hope, creating the worse prisons, a living hell on earth.
Author: Ivan G. Goldman
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-30
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1612344879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn America, 2.3 million people-a population about the size of Houston's, the country's fourth-largest city-live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America's prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of jailing for profit, the outsized power of prison guards' unions, California's exceptionally rigid three-strikes law, the ineffective and never-ending war on drugs, the closing of mental health institutions across the country, and other blunders and avaricious practices that have brought us to this point. Sick Justice tells a big, gripping story that's long overdue. By illuminating the system's brutality and greed and the prisoners' gratuitous suffering, the book aims to be a catalyst for reform, complementing the work of the Innocence Project and mirroring the effects of Michael Harrington's The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), which became the driving force behind the war on poverty.
Author: Andy Cohen
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Dolgun
Publisher: Library Development Commission
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780394494975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.
Author: Jeff Merkley
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 2019-06-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781538734179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Rivers
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Published: 2022-11-23
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexia Parks
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781930418011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesperate Parents, Troubled Teens. Tragic stories of desperate parents, the choices they made, and how you can avoid making their same mistakes. In America, it's open season on children. Children have become the cash crop for a rising industry of child abuse, that targets anxious or worried parents of "defiant," "angry," "depressed," or "troubled" youth. - Provided by publisher
Author: Edward C. Patterson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2008-06-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781438247236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to Ft. Gordon, Ga - the Special Training Unit. It's 1967, the height of the Vietnam War and Private Winslow Gibbs has been drafted. He's two-hundred and seventy pounds and a bundle of nerves. He also has issues of a different nature, but in these days before the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, these are dealt with in the American Gulag, the Army's answer to the problem. What they don't count on are the ones like Private Gibbs, who want to survive it and serve. Based on the author's own experiences, Surviving an American Gulag is a story that the military would prefer remain a footnote. However, it is a defining moment and should not be lost to posterity. Also included with this work is "A Dime a Dip," a tale of the author's grandmother and her considerable efforts on behalf of thousands of migrant worker children.
Author: John Clean
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-11-27
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781456353520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of Erika, a 23 year old African American mother of 3 year old twins who was accosted at a night club and thrown to the ground. In defending herself, she cut two of her attackers. The attackers lied to the police and Erika was charged with attempted murder, aggravated mayhem, and assault. This book is the love letters between Erika and her fiance, through an unbelievable ordeal devoid of humanity and reeking of racial prejudice, who desperately tried to hold onto their love and commitment to themselves and to the children. Sometimes raw but always honest, this narrative highlights the tragedy of our modern day judicial system that has gone beyond convicting criminals of any and all crimes and instead condemns them with no hope of redemption. How many watchers do we need to keep us safe? The prison population has grown over 400 percent since 1980, the general population just 20 percent. This is a story of love, lost in that system.
