From Incarceration To Freedom In Six Months

Author : David Blue
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664156050

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From Incarceration to Freedom in Six Months by David Blue Pdf

A fellow author asked me, “Will you edit my book?” I wondered, “What would make his book different from the hundreds of other books on the market?” Before I could shoot him a series of questions, he said, “People like to hear about other people; they like to get into their business.” Do you? Do you like to touch perspectives of both good and evil? Do you like it when people are unpredictable? Then you will be glad you chose this book. It bursts with expressions and experiences. It is a series of switchbacks, regarding: Love— Fear— Family— Failure— Deception— Prayer— Truth— Growth— Business —whether for profit, or non-profit, for human interest, or for spiritual gain, I promise you, you will get involved in “other people’s business,” “In Six Months.” Enjoy David Blue’s letter collection of dicey life events, and their spin-off situations. I did! Sincerely, Bonnie Denny

Author : Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0063425815

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Author : Chol Soo Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824857943

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Freedom without Justice by Chol Soo Lee Pdf

Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee’s wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan–Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year “Free Chol Soo Lee!” campaign that led to his release from San Quentin’s Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee’s own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds—war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row.

Author : Silvia Gomes,Maria João Leote de Carvalho,Vera Duarte
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030822767

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Incarceration and Generation, Volume II by Silvia Gomes,Maria João Leote de Carvalho,Vera Duarte Pdf

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within contexts of incarceration. It focuses on the intergenerational continuities in imprisonment; intergenerational justice and citizenship; the impacts of incarceration on multiple generations and within families; and media representations of the intergenerationality of incarceration. Volume I explores an array of experiences, dynamics, cultures, interventions, and impacts of incarceration in different generations. This collection speaks to academics in criminology, sociology, psychology, and law, and to practitioners and policymakers interested in incarceration.

Author : Kobad Ghandy
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788195124855

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Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir - A Story of Passion, Commitment and a Search for Justice and Freedom by Kobad Ghandy Pdf

Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Mumbai Parsi household and educated at one of India’s finest schools, KOBAD GHANDY’S life and career could have scaled heights in the bustling world of corporate finance. Only it did not. Instead, he chose to become an activist working for the oppressed of the country. Shocked by the racism he witnessed in the UK as a student and learning of the horrors of colonial rule in India, he determined to serve those struck the harshest by the cruel inequalities of his country. Fractured Freedom takes you through the journey of an honest man and his partner, Anuradha’s, to a difficult destiny. Here is the story of two people who dedicated their lives in the service of the marginalized, and who believed that true revolution required direct action for a more human and just society. Part memoir, part prison diary, Ghandy bares it all looking back at their lives, love, loss and politics, so intrinsically tied together. Having languished in Indian prisons for over a decade, he tells of his long incarceration, of his fellow prisoners, and of the Kafkaesque experiences with the Indian legal system. This is the candid and unfiltered account of how an unjust system breaks the brave and bold-hearted. A story of life in extremes – the height of privilege and the depth of despair, a story of our times, of a path many would shy away from.

Author : Eldar Shafir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400845347

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The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy by Eldar Shafir Pdf

An interdisciplinary look at the behavioral roots of public policy from the field's leading experts In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing decisions, racism, sexism, health behaviors, and voting. Research findings have often been strikingly counterintuitive, with serious implications for public policymaking. In this book, leading experts in psychology, decision research, policy analysis, economics, political science, law, medicine, and philosophy explore major trends, principles, and general insights about human behavior in policy-relevant settings. Their work provides a deeper understanding of the many drivers—cognitive, social, perceptual, motivational, and emotional—that guide behaviors in everyday settings. They give depth and insight into the methods of behavioral research, and highlight how this knowledge might influence the implementation of public policy for the improvement of society. This collection examines the policy relevance of behavioral science to our social and political lives, to issues ranging from health, environment, and nutrition, to dispute resolution, implicit racism, and false convictions. The book illuminates the relationship between behavioral findings and economic analyses, and calls attention to what policymakers might learn from this vast body of groundbreaking work. Wide-ranging investigation into people's motivations, abilities, attitudes, and perceptions finds that they differ in profound ways from what is typically assumed. The result is that public policy acquires even greater significance, since rather than merely facilitating the conduct of human affairs, policy actually shapes their trajectory. The first interdisciplinary look at behaviorally informed policymaking Leading behavioral experts across the social sciences consider important policy problems A compendium of behavioral findings and their application to relevant policy domains

Author : Kirt Von Daacke
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813933092

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Freedom Has a Face by Kirt Von Daacke Pdf

Argues that the inhabitants of Albemarle County (in rural Piedmont Virginia), white, black, and mixed-race treated each other more on the basis of a person's reputations than on the basis of state laws requiring restrictions on black freedom. Examples are drawn from law proceedings, (blacks did testify in courts despite its being against the law), marriages, residence, and other matters.

Author : Rosser McDonald
Publisher : Elm Hill
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400330362

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Real Prison Real Freedom by Rosser McDonald Pdf

Prisons, an integral part of society, generally are not familiar to most people. Length of sentence and treatment by others in the prisons vary widely. The immediate “Man-in-charge” of each prison unit is the warden, who has some flexibility within TDCJ guidelines. Warden Dr. Keith Price gained a reputation for turning around some chaotic prison units. He knows from experience that at best, prisons are very difficult places for people, whether they are behind the bars or in front of them. “People that wind up in prison, inmates, generally are society’s rejects,” Price said. “They’ve been unable to do the things other people do to make life a success, whether it’s because of an abusive parent, addiction to some substance, stupidity, being unable to read or write, they’ve been failures and have chosen alternate means, that is crime.” Price also knows officers have a challenging life, “The correctional officer, has to deal with people so maladjusted that society says they can’t live amongst them anymore. It’s conflict day after day, hour after hour and it really takes a toll, from broken marriages to financial problems to substance abuse. It’s continual.” The Texas Prison System was named “one of the best” in the country by a leading penology expert. However, shortly after that, a Federal Judge took control of the entire Texas Department of Corrections for “unconstitutional treatment” of inmates. TDC denied and resisted many of the reforms the judge ordered. The result was chaos. Too few guards, rampant gangs, gang wars and overcrowding were the norm for several years. The court kept control 20 years and finally the prison system adapted to the new (and constitutional) ways of operating. At the same time Texas prison population doubled, and more than doubled, again. During that time, 19-year-old Rickie Smith began a 10-year sentence in TDC on a drug charge. He joined the gang wars, in the Aryan Brotherhood and then made his own personal war with prison officers. He could have been released in a few short years, but, in 3 separate trials juries added 3 ninety-nine-year sentences for him to serve. Trial transcripts have many references in testimonies to how dangerous Rickie Smith is--even calling him “the most violent inmate” in TDC. REAL PRISON / REAL FREEDOM is a biography of Rickie Smith and how his life intersects with the woes of the prison system and with Warden Keith Price. Naturally, he wanted out, knowing that realistically it will never happen. Officials told him he’ll never get out. Then came the impossible that shocked everyone, especially Rickie.

Author : Richard J. Terrill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317228813

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World Criminal Justice Systems by Richard J. Terrill Pdf

World Criminal Justice Systems, Ninth Edition, provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world’s countries -- each representative of a different type of legal system. An additional chapter on Islamic law uses three examples to illustrate the range of practice within Sharia. Political, historical, organizational, procedural, and critical issues confronting the justice systems are explained and analyzed. Each chapter contains material on government, police, judiciary, law, corrections, juvenile justice, and other critical issues. The ninth edition features an introduction directing students to the resources they need to understand comparative criminal justice theory and methodology. The chapter on Russia includes consideration of the turmoil in post-Soviet successor states, and the final chapter on Islamic law examines the current status of criminal justice systems in the Middle East.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050393714

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Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2004, November 2004, 108-2 Joint Committee Print, S. Prt. 108-59, * by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : PSU:000056545791

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Annual Report, International Religious Freedom by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Elijah Zarwan
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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False Freedom by Elijah Zarwan Pdf

Author : Martine Jean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009289122

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Policing Freedom by Martine Jean Pdf

Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population during the foundational period of Brazilian state formation and postcolonial nation building. Placing this penitentiary within the global debates about the disciplinary benefits of confinement and the evolution of free labor ideology, Martine Jean illustrates how Brazil's political elites envisioned the penitentiary as a way to discipline the free working class. While participating in the debates about the inhumanity of the slave trade, philanthropists and lawmakers, both conservative and liberal, articulated a nation-building discourse that focused on reforming Brazil's vagrants into workers in anticipation of slavery's eventual demise, laying the racialized foundations for policing and incarceration in the post-emancipation period.

Author : Geniece Crawford Mondé
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520380738

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This Is Our Freedom by Geniece Crawford Mondé Pdf

For the overwhelming majority of women leaving correctional institutions in the United States, there is one aspect of their identity that informs their needs, opportunities, hopes, and dreams: their roles as mothers. This Is Our Freedom provides an intimate and moving portrait of women’s journeys prior to and after incarceration. In interviews with seventy formerly incarcerated mothers, Geniece Crawford Mondé captures how women reframe their marginalized identity and place themselves at the center of their own stories. With incisive analysis, Mondé reveals the complex ways that motherhood shapes post-incarceration life, while highlighting how the lasting legacy of mass incarceration continues to impact society’s most vulnerable members.

Author : Firat Sabancioglu
Publisher : Fora Stelo Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781999218409

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Society of Freedom by Firat Sabancioglu Pdf

Society of Freedom is a thought experiment about a hypothetical society in which everyone wants to live freely without violating freedoms of other people. Members of the society are rational and sufficiently intelligent to gradually act more rationally. They voluntarily accept a social contract with which they promise to make the maximum effort to avoid violating freedoms of others. The book analyzes the hypothetical society to discover its properties and high level principles that would be applicable to social life, lawmaking, law implementation, dispute resolution, economic system, education, and relations with other types of societies. In order to communicate his ideas effectively, the author creates and uses a specific terminology. First part of the book defines the key concepts related to freedom, authenticity, rationality, intelligence, social interaction and explains them with examples. Second part uses the terminology to construct and analyze Society of Freedom. The author brings together many different concepts and connects them in a natural and logical way. One of the main implications of the book is that it is theoretically possible for certain types of people to collaborate with the help of a social contract and gradually build a society in which everyone lives the way they prefer to live. Society of Freedom is therefore a valuable guide for everyone who wants to have more freedoms, who does not want to be restricted by any obstacles, and who does not want to do so at the expense of freedoms of other people. The book is also indirectly challenging the fundamentals of modern human societies and implicitly questioning the political, economic, legal systems and the social organization of humanity.