Prison City

Author : Ruth Massingill,Ardyth Broadrick Sohn
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 0820488909

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Prison City by Ruth Massingill,Ardyth Broadrick Sohn Pdf

Prison City looks beneath the placid surface of Huntsville, Texas, execution capital of the world, and sheds light on controversial issues usually hidden behind penitentiary walls. The authors draw on a multitude of voices from the community surrounding the prison - from inmates and guards to neighboring residents and local politicians - to reflect on questions of crime and punishment, vengeance, and forgiveness. We see how the sophisticated communication techniques employed by inmates, information officers, and community leaders shape opinions in the small towns where prisons are a principal industry. The poignant, evocative stories that run throughout the book highlight the incarcerated population's increasing influence in the political, cultural, and economic landscape in the United States. Most of all, Prison City offers opportunities to understand why the Texas justice system has become a global metaphor for incarceration and capital punishment.

Author : J. H. Twells
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547356523

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In the Prison City, Brussels, 1914-1918 by J. H. Twells Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In the Prison City, Brussels, 1914-1918" (A Personal Narrative) by J. H. Twells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Doran Larson
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628950199

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Fourth City by Doran Larson Pdf

At 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation’s fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the authors’ efforts at self-help, the institutional resistance such efforts meet at nearly every turn, and the impact, in money and lives, that this resistance has on the public. Directly confronting the images of prisons and prisoners manufactured by popular media, so-called reality TV, and for-profit local and national news sources, Fourth City recognizes American prisoners as our primary, frontline witnesses to the dysfunction of the largest prison system on earth. Filled with deeply personal stories of coping, survival, resistance, and transformation, Fourth City should be read by every American who believes that law should achieve order in the cause of justice rather than at its cost.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Government publications
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU02092603

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000130748233

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Laws and General Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati by Cincinnati (Ohio) Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555099849

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Dominique Moran,Anna K. Schliehe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137560575

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Carceral Spatiality by Dominique Moran,Anna K. Schliehe Pdf

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume’s inventive engagements in ‘thinking through carcerality’ touch on more elusive concepts of identity, memory and internal – as well as physical – walls and bars. Edited by two human geographers, and positioned within a criminological context, this original collection draws together essays by geographers and criminologists with a keen interest in carceral studies. The authors stretch their disciplinary boundaries; tackling a range of contemporary literatures to engage in new conversations and raising important questions within current debates on incarceration. A highly interdisciplinary project, this edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, social policy, and spatial carceral studies.

Author : Hannah Thurston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137533081

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Prisons and Punishment in Texas by Hannah Thurston Pdf

This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories of Texan toughness in the penal sphere, as well as poignant stories about the witnessing of executions, comical stories that normalize the harsher aspects of Texan punishment, and presentations about prison officers who have lost their lives in the war on crime. In analysing these representations, the book shows that Texan history plays an important role in the production of Texan self-identity, and that to understand the Texan commitment to harsh punishment we must be prepared to focus on Texan myths and memories. Prisons and Punishment in Texas draws on diverse interdisciplinary work, including criminology, cultural studies about Southern values, as well as research on cultural memory and dark tourism. Museums are shown to be under-researched sites of criminological significance, which offer rich evidence through which penal imaginaries and the cultural role of punishment can be explored. The book will be of great interest to criminologists as well as scholars of sociology, cultural studies, museum studies and politics.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849506960

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society by Austin Sarat Pdf

Brings together research on law's cultural life and on institutions and actors who translate interests, preferences, and values into legal policy. This work offers perspectives from an interdisciplinary and international community and contains contributions from scholars of theology, political science, criminology, bio-ethics, and law.

Author : Scott Janish
Publisher : ScottJanish.com
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780578507354

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The New IPA by Scott Janish Pdf

In The NEW IPA, Scott Janish scours through hundreds of academic studies, collecting and translating the relevant hop science into one easily digestible book. Through experiments, lab tests, discussions with researchers, and interviews with renowned and award-winning commercial brewers, the NEW IPA will get you to think differently about brewing processes and ingredient selection that define today's hop-forward beers. It's a must-have book for those that love to brew hoppy hazy beer and a scientific guide for those who want to push the limits of hop flavor and aroma!

Author : Susana Draper
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822978060

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Afterlives of Confinement by Susana Draper Pdf

During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the post-dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the "opening" of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, Draper examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures. The afterlife of prisons became an important tool in the "forgetting" of past politics, while also serving as a reminder to citizens of the liberties they now enjoyed. In Draper's analysis, these symbols led the populace to believe they had attained freedom, although they had only witnessed the veneer of democracy--in the ability to vote and consume. In selected literary works by Roberto Bolaño, Eleuterio Fernández Huidoboro, and Diamela Eltit and films by Alejandro Agresti and Marco Bechis, Draper finds further evidence of the emptiness and melancholy of underachieved goals in the afterlife of dictatorships. The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much of these texts. Draper's study of the manipulation of culture and consumerism under the guise of democracy will have powerful implications not only for Latin Americanists but also for those studying neoliberal transformations globally.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555095509

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Reports from the Commissioners by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435065184434

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Terrell Sessions
Publisher : Terrell sessions
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Unnamed Book by Terrell Sessions Pdf

The world is in peril there are two suns and all major cities have been turned into prison cities and waiting for a leader that can save it, controlled by Dorian a space station set up by the the head of the world's governments is where our hero will find himself and that's just the beginning ... he is an interdimensional time traveler who has many secrets and doesn't know he's a diety... he will find himself traveling between this world and the next ...thru time and space as a mind-reading inventor can he go back and bring a better future to a world bent on destruction...

Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Georgia
ISBN : UOM:39015027784019

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Georgia and State Rights by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Pdf