Mr Smith Goes To Prison

Author : Jeff Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466862562

Get Book

Mr. Smith Goes to Prison by Jeff Smith Pdf

The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions of fellow inmate Cornbread and his friends in the Aryan Brotherhood; what constitutes a prison car and who's allowed to ride in yours; how to bend and break the rules, whether you're a prisoner or an officer. And throughout his sentence, the young Senator tracked the greatest crime of all: the deliberate waste of untapped human potential. Smith saw the power of millions of inmates harnessed as a source of renewable energy for America's prison-industrial complex, a system that aims to build better criminals instead of better citizens. In Mr. Smith Goes to Prison, he traces the cracks in America's prison walls, exposing the shortcomings of a racially-based cycle of poverty and crime that sets inmates up to fail. Speaking from inside experience, he offers practical solutions to jailbreak the nation from the financially crushing grip of its own prisons and to jumpstart the rehabilitation of the millions living behind bars.

Author : Terry Oroszi
Publisher : Terry Oroszi
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982168394

Get Book

Mr. Smith Goes to North Korea by Terry Oroszi Pdf

Evelyn "Eve" Black is an undercover FBI Special Agent, but she’s not a very good one. She often breaks cover, loses her temper, and kills a few too many people. Fortunately for the FBI her old partner, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, ASAC Sean Peck was very by-the-book, and now it’s his turn to go undercover. Colton Smith, U.S. Army veteran, country music star, and Occupy Wall Street anti-one-percenter terrorist. While inside prison his singing made him a YouTube phenomenon, catching the eye of North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. Three young Americans visiting North Korea on holiday are jailed and tortured, and it’s up to Mr. Smith to pave the way for their escape. On this rare occasion, the CIA and the FBI work together to penetrate the hermit kingdom and bring the Americans home, all under the leader’s nose. Just when he thinks it’s all pizza and karaoke.

Author : Jessica Hanser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : China
ISBN : 9780300236088

Get Book

Mr. Smith Goes to China by Jessica Hanser Pdf

An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China.

Author : Frank "Sulaiman" Tucci,Remy Parrilla-Tucci
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440183423

Get Book

The Old Muslim's Opinions by Frank "Sulaiman" Tucci,Remy Parrilla-Tucci Pdf

The Old Muslim's Opinions may benefit from the conversational approach that is taken by authors. They have also designed the text to be read a chapter at a time with each having its own conclusion. The variety of topics, a bland of American humor and Filipino backwardness is enjoyable and a good read from beginning to end! The Old Muslim's Opinions began in 2007, when the editor of a small town newspaper asked Sulaiman to write a weekly column. Shortly thereafter a larger more prodigous newspaper near Tacloban, the capital city of Leyte island, sought out Sulaiman for his controversial and ineresting style of writing. Although close to 70 years old, he has no intention of slowing down and has just started their third book. The Tuccis are retired in Ormoc City, Remy's place of birth 68 years ago. She keeps herself busy with family, former classmates and friends, when not typing manuscripts for the old Muslim. As for Sulaiman, he is very active in the local Muslim community visiting Mosques all over the island.

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300255874

Get Book

Drugs and Thugs by Russell Crandall Pdf

A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America’s domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical use of marijuana, and America’s shifting foreign policy.

Author : Robert A Ferguson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300235296

Get Book

Metamorphosis by Robert A Ferguson Pdf

In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadequate. Some people believe that contracting out prison services to for-profit companies is a recipe for mistreatment. Robert Ferguson argues that these reforms barely scratch the surface of what is wrong with American prisons: an atmosphere of malice and humiliation that subjects prisoners and guards alike to constant degradation. Bolstered by insights from hundreds of letters written by prisoners, Ferguson makes the case for an entirely new concept of prisons and their purpose: an “inner architectonics of reform” that will provide better education for all involved in prisons, more imaginative and careful use of technology, more sophisticated surveillance systems, and better accountability.

Author : Helen Clarke Molanphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000585445

Get Book

The American Penal System by Helen Clarke Molanphy Pdf

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future. Author Helen Clarke Molanphy employs an interdisciplinary approach encompassing sociology, penology, memoir, philosophy, and history. Featuring the work of researchers as well as penal theorists of the Enlightenment era, literati who have written about crime and punishment, inmates, social justice activists, and journalists, the author incorporates first-hand interviews with participants in the landmark Ruiz v. Estelle lawsuit, which found incarceration in the Texas Department of Corrections to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Synthesizing lessons learned from years of studying the American prison system through contact with inmates, correctional authorities, legislators, and prisoner advocates, Molanphy offers a narrative of crime and punishment, degradation, and dehumanization, but with hope pointing to future correctional reforms. The book not only catalogs human rights abuses and the pain inflicted by corrupt penal systems, but also provides a roadmap for an enlightened society to conceive of ways to reduce mass incarceration and provide humane treatment of inmates. This reflective survey of the pervasive issues that afflict the prison industrial complex offers a compelling analysis of the past and possible future of the US penal system for students of criminal justice, corrections, penology, and the sociology of punishment.

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520969674

Get Book

Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays by Adam Hochschild Pdf

In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.

Author : Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:78126004

Get Book

Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada by Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly Pdf

Author : Rawdon Wyatt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781408102398

Get Book

Check Your English Vocabulary for Law by Rawdon Wyatt Pdf

Check Your English Vocabulary for Law is a workbook designed to help non-native English speakers improve their knowledge and understanding of core legal terminology. The workbook includes crosswords, puzzles and word games to test English vocabulary and a combination of self-study exercises and practical speaking activities mean that this book is ideal for both home- and classbased study.

Author : C. W. Michael
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9781554830923

Get Book

The Criminal's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Surviving Arrest and Incarceration in Canada by C. W. Michael Pdf

Author : Justin Sytsma
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472507334

Get Book

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind by Justin Sytsma Pdf

The past decade has witnessed an exciting (and controversial) new approach to philosophy: Experimental philosophers aim to supplement, and perhaps to supplant, traditional philosophical approaches by employing empirical methods from the social sciences. In Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, leading experimental philosophers apply these methods to questions about the nature of the mind, the self, consciousness, moral judgment, and concepts. By bringing empirical methods to bear on key issues, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind pushes the debates forward, casting new insight on perennial problems. This is an essential resource for professors, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in either philosophy of mind or the burgeoning field of experimental philosophy.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215037723

Get Book

The Northern Ireland Prison Service by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Pdf

Northern Ireland Prison Service : First report of session 2007-08, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

Get Book

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081321740

Get Book

Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor Pdf