Building Time at Brushy

Building Time at Brushy

Author: Stonney Ray Lane

Publisher:

Published: 2003-06

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781410711366

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The story of Stonney Ray Lane--a mild mannered young man who started his career in corrections as an inmate teacher/counselor at Brushy Mountain State Prison. He writes about his early experiences as a teacher and counselor.


The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism

Author: Jacqueline Z. Wilson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-17

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 1137561351

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This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world. It is divided into seven sections: Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship; Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment; Meanings of Prison Life and Representations of Punishment in Tourism Sites; Death and Torture in Prison Museums; Colonialism, Relics of Empire and Prison Museums; Tourism and Operational Prisons; and Visitor Consumption and Experiences of Prison Tourism. The Handbook explores global debates within the field of Prison Tourism inquiry; spanning a diverse range of topics from political imprisonment and persecution in Taiwan to interpretive programming in Alcatraz, and the representation of incarcerated Indigenous peoples to prison graffiti. This Handbook is the first to present a thorough examination of Prison Tourism that is truly global in scope. With contributions from both well-renowned scholars and up-and-coming researchers in the field, from a wide variety of disciplines, the Handbook comprises an international collection at the cutting edge of Prison Tourism studies. Students and teachers from disciplines ranging from Criminology to Cultural Studies will find the text invaluable as the definitive work in the field of Prison Tourism.


Coal, Cages, Crisis

Coal, Cages, Crisis

Author: Judah Schept

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1479888923

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How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment, population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth to other sites in this landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators—Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance, detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal, Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the broader United States.


Journal

Journal

Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council

Publisher:

Published: 1880

Total Pages: 1542

ISBN-13:

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Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration (Third Edition)

Author: Tim Matson

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2012-06-04

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 158157147X

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The bible of pond-making in a fully redesigned 30th-anniversary edition. There is nothing like a pond. What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your property? Earth Ponds is the standard resource for building and maintaining these important and lovely landscape features. For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with some 100,000 copies in print, has guided an entire generation of pond makers on everything from site planning to soil sampling to drainage and wildlife management. It’s a complete overview of the country pond. Illustrations guide the pond builder through every step of the process; chapters carefully describe the issues and decisions in a wonderfully personal way. It’s the condensed wisdom of a man who has spent a lifetime building, restoring, and maintaining ponds.


A Prison Anthology: Brushy Mountain 2005-2007

A Prison Anthology: Brushy Mountain 2005-2007

Author: Garry W. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781735450704

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News items and events spanning 3 years of the notorious Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. In the pages of this book you will get a taste of what life was like for the last residences of this 113-year-old relic of the convict-lease system. Men from the inside produced a publication that outlasted the prison and has been preserved here for your review.That's not to say everything you read in these pages will be exactly what it seems. The Mountain Review went out on a limb now and then, but it was a government document, a censored publication - "the man" got to read it long before the prisoners did. That is why you may have to read between the lines as you journey through these publications; many of the real stories are a little deeper than what is apparent at first glance.What will be apparent is that not every person in prison is the type of character you see on television (though there are a few). Prisoners still make much hay about being a "convict," but the ideas on how a person in the system should act are more andmore convoluted everyday. What it comes down to is a split between the decent and the devious, and the majority who are much of both.Fortunately for me, in the almost 10 years I worked on this publication, the decent seemed to be the ones with the most tosay. We hope that this book serves as a testament that there are a few good people who have put themselves in really bad placesand a handful more that realized their mistakes and are trying to turn it around. The proceeds from this book will help folks likethese make the inside a better place and help insure that the ones who get out never return.


The Tabernacle

The Tabernacle

Author: Jeff Clark

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2018-01-22

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1480976016

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The Tabernacle By: Jeff Clark The Tabernacle follows the sweeping 13,000 year history of two central Texas farm communities: Alameda and Cheaney. Searching along winding wooded trails, uncovering hidden homesteads miles from the nearest road and listening at last to the words of teachers four decades his senior, author Jeff Clark begins to hear the tale of timeless lands, and the lessons as it finally breaks open in his own life. This sprawling epic is full of firsthand testimony about the harsh settlement of the Texas frontier, as well as surprising glimpses into his storytellers’ twenty-first century lives. The Tabernacle will move you deeply, as it has moved within the lives of many generations encamped along the shores of the Leon River.


The Real Billy the Kid Revealed

The Real Billy the Kid Revealed

Author: Jim Johnson

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 197726011X

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Author Jim Johnson has been intrigued with the Old West, its lore, and its legends all of his life. His interest began while watching the old black and white western movies made in the 1940s and 50s. Over the years he has collected and read thousands of nonfiction books and magazines on western outlaws and lawmen. Today, his library overflows with these nonfiction western books and magazines. Jim read these books and magazine articles thoroughly and with caution. He was amazed at the contradictions, not only within books, but between books, and some of the fiction added to glamorize the books. His research over the last 25-30 years has taken him across the southwest, including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, and the midwest, including Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana. He has copies of thousands of documents from archives, government records, and internet records. He has also used online sources


Yankee Moderns

Yankee Moderns

Author: Michael Hoberman

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781572330870

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"Rural New Englanders, Hoberman suggests, have too long been portrayed as backward-looking and dangerously homogeneous in their makeup - crotchety exceptions to modernity's nearly worldwide sweep. This insightful work, with its emphasis on instability and adaptation as persistent features of the folk region, does much to lay that stereotype to rest."--BOOK JACKET.