The Jail

Author : Lorna Poplak
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459745988

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The Don by Lorna Poplak Pdf

An in-depth exploration of the Don Jail from its inception through jailbreaks and overcrowding to its eventual shuttering and rebirth. Conceived as a “palace for prisoners,” the Don Jail never lived up to its promise. Although based on progressive nineteenth-century penal reform and architectural principles, the institution quickly deteriorated into a place of infamy where both inmates and staff were in constant danger of violence and death. Its mid-twentieth-century replacement, the New Don, soon became equally tainted. Along with investigating the origins and evolution of Toronto’s infamous jail, The Don presents a kaleidoscope of memorable characters — inmates, guards, governors, murderous gangs, meddlesome politicians, harried architects, and even a pair of star-crossed lovers whose doomed romance unfolded in the shadow of the gallows. This is the story of the Don’s tumultuous descent from palace to hellhole, its shuttering and lapse into decay, and its astonishing modern-day metamorphosis. Speaker's Book Award 2021 — Shortlisted | Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 2022 — Shortlisted

Author : Nick Pappas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Jails
ISBN : UCAL:$B383972

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The Jail by Nick Pappas Pdf

Author : Jack Norton,Lydia Pelot-Hobbs,Judah Schept
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804291337

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The Jail is Everywhere by Jack Norton,Lydia Pelot-Hobbs,Judah Schept Pdf

A VITAL COLLECTION FROM A KEY BATTLEGROUND IN THE ABOLITION STRUGGLE: THE COUNTY JAIL Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. While the growing movement against incarceration and policing has called to reform or abolish prisons, jails have often gone unnoticed, or in some cases seen as a "better" alternative to prisons." Yet jails, in recent decades, have been the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. Jails are widely used for immigrant detention by ICE and the U.S. Marshals and as a place to offload people that prisons can't hold. As jails grow, they transform the region around them, and whole towns and small cities see health care, mental health care, substance abuse, and employment opportunities taken over by carceral concerns. If jails are everywhere, resistance to jails is too. The recent jail boom has sparked a wealth of local activist struggles to resist and close jails all across the United States, from rural counties to major cities. The Jail Is Everywhere brings these disparate voices together, with contributions from activists, scholars, and expert journalists describing the effects of this quiet jail boom, mapping the growth of the carceral state, and sharing strategies from recent fights against jail construction to strengthen struggles against jailing everywhere. With a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Author : Nick Pappas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Prisons
ISBN : UCBK:B000558917

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Instructors Guide to the Jail: Its Operation and Management by Nick Pappas Pdf

Author : Raúl Salinas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292756168

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raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine by Raúl Salinas Pdf

Raúl R. Salinas is regarded as one of today's most important Chicano poets and human rights activists, but his passage to this place of distinction took him through four of the most brutal prisons in the country. His singular journey from individual alienation to rage to political resistance reflected the social movements occurring inside and outside of prison, making his story both personal and universal. This groundbreaking collection of Salinas' journalism and personal correspondence from his years of incarceration and following his release provides a unique perspective into his spiritual, intellectual, and political metamorphosis. The book also offers an insider's view of the prison rebellion movement and its relation to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The numerous letters between Salinas and his family, friends, and potential allies illustrate his burgeoning political awareness of the cause and conditions of his and his comrades' incarceration and their link to the larger political and historical web of social relations between dominant and subaltern groups. These collected pieces, as well as two interviews with Salinas—one conducted upon his release from prison in 1972, the second more than two decades later—reveal to readers the transformation of Salinas from a street hipster to a man seeking to be a part of something larger than himself. Louis Mendoza has painstakingly compiled a body of work that is autobiographical, politically insurgent, and representative.

Author : John Irwin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520957459

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The Jail by John Irwin Pdf

Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America’s crisis of mass incarceration.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761363514

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Open the Jail Doors — We Want to Enter by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

"The Defiance Campaign marked a new chapter in the struggle...going to prison became a badge of honor among Africans."―Nelson Mandela, 1952 On June 26, 1952, twenty-five men and five women entered the waiting room of a railway station in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. If they had been white people of European descent, they would have gone unnoticed. But they were black South Africans who were violating the waiting room's "Europeans Only" sign as part of the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws. Instituted by the African National Congress (ANC), the campaign aimed to peacefully defy a series of laws known as apartheid―a system of legal racial segregation. Across the country, similar protests took place and more than 250 resisters went to jail that day. The ANC's strategy was to fill the jails to overflowing and cause the police and judicial branches of government to break down. In July fifteen hundred men and women took part in the campaign; in August more than two thousand went to jail. The Defiance Campaign eventually triumphed, but not before the tragedy of bloodshed, violence, and death among three generations of South Africans. In this riveting story of the long struggle against apartheid, we'll explore the reasons why thousands were willing to die in the fight for civil rights. And we'll witness how their courageous efforts led to the day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela stood before thousands of free South Africans as the nation's first black president.

Author : United States. Bureau of Prisons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123782414

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Jail Management, a Course for Jail Administrators by United States. Bureau of Prisons Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Comack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1773630105

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Coming Back to Jail by Elizabeth Comack Pdf

Drawing on the stories of forty-two incarcerated women, Coming Back to Jail broadens the focus to examine the role of trauma in the women's lives.

Author : W.C. Madden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476666150

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The Rotary Jail by W.C. Madden Pdf

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-proof structures were erected in the United States from 1882 through 1889. There were problems. There were mechanical difficulties due to the extreme weight of the components. Unwary prisoners lost digits or limbs when carousels were rotated without warning--one lost his life. Because inmates could only be let out of their cells one at a time, some rotary jails were closed as fire hazards. This book describes in detail their construction, operation and eventual demise, as well as some of the colorful inmates that were held in them.

Author : Melissa Higgins
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781484683422

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The Night Dad Went to Jail by Melissa Higgins Pdf

When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.

Author : William C. Collins,Andrew W. Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Female offenders
ISBN : PURD:32754067417166

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Women in Jail by William C. Collins,Andrew W. Collins Pdf

This report reviews the major legal issues concerning female inmates. It discusses equality of programmes, services and facilities, including housing, privileges, medical care, and sexual harassment and physical abuse in jail.

Author : Melanie Newport
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512823509

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This Is My Jail by Melanie Newport Pdf

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing. Centering the political actions of people until now overlooked—jailed people, wardens, corrections officers, sheriffs, and the countless community members who battled over the functions and impact of jails—Newport shows how local, grassroots contestation shaped the rise of the carceral state. As ground zero for struggles over criminal justice reform, particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century, jails in Chicago and Cook County were models for jailers and advocates across the nation who aimed to redefine jails as institutions of benevolent transformation. From a slave sale on the jail steps to new jail buildings to electronic monitoring, from therapy to job training, these efforts further criminalized jailed people and diminished their capacity to organize for their civil rights. With prisoners as famous as Al Capone, Dick Gregory, and Harold Washington, and a place in culture ranging from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle to B. B. King’s Live in Cook County Jail, This Is My Jail places jails at the heart of twentieth-century urban life and politics. As a sweeping history of urban incarceration, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care. Structured by liberal anti-Blackness and legacies of violence, today’s jails reflect longstanding local commitments to the unfreedom of poor people of color.

Author : Henry J. Steadman,Bonita M. Veysey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015055604618

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Providing Services for Jail Inmates with Mental Disorders by Henry J. Steadman,Bonita M. Veysey Pdf

Author : Mary Andrews Denison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074811989

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Opposite the Jail by Mary Andrews Denison Pdf