A perfect book for the children of police officers to be read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your little ones how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's story about a boy's hero, his Police Officer Daddy, and how he keeps the community safe, while being sure to remind his son how loved he is.
A perfect book for the children of Correctional Officers to read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your children how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's story about their Correctional Officer Daddy and what his job entails, while being sure to note that above all else, his children are what is most important to him.
A perfect book for the children of Deputy Sheriffs to read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your little ones how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's so about a boy's hero, his Deputy Sheriff Daddy, and how he keeps the community safe, while being sure to remind his son how loved he is.
In this moving memoir, a woman recounts her search for truth and justice regarding her father’s murder during America’s deadliest prison riot. Deanne Quinn Miller was five years old when her father—William “Billy” Quinn—was murdered in the first minutes of the Attica Prison Riot, the only corrections officer to die at the hands of inmates. But how did he die? Who were the killers? Those questions haunted Dee and wreaked havoc on her psyche for thirty years. Finally, when she joined the Forgotten Victims of Attica, she began to find answers. This began the process of bringing closure not only for herself but for the other victims’ families, the former prisoners she met, and all of those who perished on September 13, 1971—the day of the “retaking,” when New York State troopers and corrections officers at the Attica Correctional facility slaughtered twenty-nine rioting prisoners and ten hostages in a hail of gunfire. In The Prison Guard’s Daughter, Dee brings readers in on her lifelong mission for the truth and justice for the Attica survivors and the families of the men who lost their lives. But the real win was the journey that crossed racial and criminal-justice divides: befriending infamous Attica prisoner Frank “Big Black” Smith, meeting Richard Clark and other inmates who tried to carry her father to safety after his beating, and learning what life was like for all the people—prisoners and prison employees alike—inside Attica. As Miller lays bare the truth about her father’s death, the world inside Attica, and the state’s reckless raid and coverup, she conveys a narrative of compassionate humanity and a call for prison reform. Praise for The Prison Guard’s Daughter “A remarkable tale of healing and reconciliation, born from the tragedy of the nation’s deadliest prison uprising . . . . The Prison Guard’s Daughter reminds us that we can reach across divides—racial, social, economic—and learn lessons about others that inevitably teach us about ourselves. In a world in which the chasms among people seem to swell wider every day, this book tells us that our true angels can prevail, as long as we are ready to engage them.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate “In the wake of the unimaginable trauma caused by the State of New York, there were the courageous few who had to endure even more pain to make sure that there was some reckoning with this horrific event, and some measure of justice for its victims. This is the extraordinarily beautiful story of one of the most courageous of those few, Dee Quinn Miller, who, quite literally, changed history.” —Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy “A personal, affecting, and eye-opening account of a pivotal tragedy on the seemingly endless road to prison reform.” —Booklist
A perfect book for the children of police officers to be read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your little ones how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's story about a boy and his hero, his Police Officer Mommy, and how she keeps the community safe while being sure to let her child know how loved he is.
A perfect book for the children of State Troopers to read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your little ones how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's story about a boy's hero, his State Trooper Daddy, what his job entails, and how he keeps the community safe while being sure to remind his son how loved he is.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
"When Police Daddies Go to work, they have a lot to do... But all throughout their shift they are always thinking about you." "For the most important Thing, a Police daddy will say... is coming home to you at the end of every day!" A great book for the children with Police Officer Daddies, to be read before going to work or at any time. The book shows that despite the nature of a Police Daddies job, his favorite thing above all is his children.
A perfect book for the children of Law Enforcement K9 Handlers, to be read before leaving for work or at any time. A great way to teach your children about the different job duties of a K9 Officer and his handler. A story about a child's hero K9 Handler Daddy, and how him and his K9 partner keep the community safe.
The Nothing That Never Happened is a collection of stories detailing the emotion danger and psychological damage that Correctional Officers endure while working behind the walls and the wire of a correctional facility. This book highlights the "nothings" that go unreported."This book is the reality check that many will not receive, and yet everyone in the correctional environment needs. William lays out the hard cold truths about the invisible working hazards that most of the general public doesn't have a clue about. The Nothing That Never Happened is the chance to further educate yourself and your loved ones on the difficult reality of working inside the walls." -Olivia Moser, LIMHP, PLADC; Clinical Program Manager, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
