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Author : Alison Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0994385919
Lives of various women who served time at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart - their joys and sorrows, failure and successes
Author : Austin Reed
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812986914
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Reed was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “One of the most fascinating and important memoirs ever produced in the United States.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . triumphantly defiant . . . The book’s greatest value lies in the gap it fills.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Reed displays virtuosic gifts for narrative that, a century and a half later, earn and hold the reader’s ear.”—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle “[The book’s] urgency and relevance remain undiminished. . . . This exemplary edition recovers history without permanently trapping it in one interpretation.”—The Guardian “A sensational, novelistic telling of an eventful life.”—The Paris Review “Vivid and painful.”—NPR “Lyrical and graceful in one sentence, burning with fury and hellfire in the next.”—Columbus Free Press
Author : Diane Schoemperlen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443434225
From the Governor General’s Award winning author of Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found and By the Book “Never once in my life had I dreamed of being in bed with a convicted killer.” For almost six turbulent years, award-winning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. The relationship surprised no one more than her. How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past? How do you date someone who is in prison? This Is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shane—how they met and fell in love, how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a long-term prisoner attempting to return to society, and how, eventually, things fell apart. While no relationship takes place in a vacuum, this is never more true than when that relationship is with a federal inmate. In this candid, often wry, sometimes disturbing memoir, Schoemperlen takes us inside this complex and difficult relationship as she journeys through the prison system with Shane. Not only did this relationship enlarge her capacity for both empathy and compassion, but it also forced her to more deeply examine herself.
Author : Dianne Snowden,Jane Harrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648401901
Stories of women convicts who were incarcerated in the New Norfolk Lunatic Asylum
Author : Female Convicts Research Centre Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Convict labor
ISBN : 0987144340
"The Launceston Female Factory opened in 1834 as the first purpose-built institution for convict women in Van Diemen's Land... The lives of women are retold in poignant narratives in this, the third volume in the series 'Convict Lives'. The authors provide rich historical details about how the women who entered through the grim gates of the Launceston Female Factory negotiated their lives as convicts during the assignment and probation systems in Van Diemen's Land"--Back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Tasmania
ISBN : 0987144324
"Convict Lives tells the stories of 33 fascinating women. Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land opened in 1828 and closed as a gaol in 1877. Female convicts, and some locally convicted women, were sent there for punishment, to be assigned or hired as servants, or to await confinement."--Back cover.
Author : Female Convicts Research Group (Tasmania) Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Convict labor
ISBN : 0987144308
Author : Bob Reece
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349215577
In April 1791 the "Queen" sailed from Cobh in Cork with the first cargo of Irish convicts destined for New South Wales. During the next 76 years, Ireland supplied 40,000 of all the convicts transported to Australia. This book looks at what happened to these exiles.
Author : Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839501
Focusing on women's relationships, life-circumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.
Author : Female Convicts Research Centre (Tas.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Convict labor
ISBN : 0987144367
Stories about female convicts who were imprisoned at George Town Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land in the early 1800s
Author : Shadd Maruna
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1557987319
Based on the Liverpool Desistance Study, this book compares and contrasts the stories of ex-convicts who are actively involved in criminal behavior with those who are desisting from crime and drug use. Extensive excerpts from the study reveal two types of personal narratives: a "condemnation" script favored by active offenders and a "generative" script favored by desisters. The way that these scripts are constructed and the manner in which they are used is then examined in light of contemporary criminological and psychological thought. The results suggests that success in reform depends on providing rehabilitative opportunities that reinforce the generative script. This study reveals a constructive new direction for offender rehabilitation efforts and will appeal to a wide range of readers from psychologists and criminologists to legislators, administrators, substance abuse counselors, and offenders themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)
Author : Hamish Maxwell-Stewart,Lucy Frost
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111966615
This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.
Author : Simon Rolston
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771125185
Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U.S. prison system. Simon Rolston observes that the autobiographical work of incarcerated people is based on a conversion narrative, a story arc that underpins the concept of prison rehabilitation and that sometimes serves the interests of the prison system, rather than those on the inside. Yet many imprisoned people rework the conversion narrative the way they repurpose other objects in prison. Like a radio motor retooled into a tattoo gun, the conversion narrative has been redefined by some authors for subversive purposes, including questioning the ostensible emancipatory role of prison writing, critiquing white supremacy, and broadly reimagining autobiographical discourse. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.
Author : Henry Mayhew,John Binny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Correctional institutions
ISBN : OXFORD:300022133
Author : Richard Tuffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Correctional institutions
ISBN : 1743327846
