The Prisoners

Author : Ann Walmsley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143194163

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The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley Pdf

A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen. An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear. But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. There was no wine and cheese, no plush furnishings. But a book club on the inside proved to be a place to share ideas and regain a sense of humanity. From The Grapes of Wrath to The Cellist of Sarajevo, Outliers to Infidel, the book discussions became a springboard for frank conversations about loss, anger, redemption, and loneliness. The books changed the men and the men changed Walmsley. Written with compassion and humour, The Prison Book Club is an eye-opening look at inmates and the penal system, and the possibilities of redemption.

Author : Chris Clarkson,Melissa Munn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487538453

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Disruptive Prisoners by Chris Clarkson,Melissa Munn Pdf

Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada’s federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography – one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians. This social history relies on extensive archival research and access to government documents, but more importantly, uses the penal press materials created by prisoners themselves and an interview with one of the founding penal press editors to provide a unique and unprecedented analysis. Disruptive Prisoners is grounded in the lived experiences of men who were incarcerated in federal penitentiaries in Canada and argues that they were not merely passive recipients of intervention. Evidence indicates that prisoners were active agents of change who advocated for and resisted the initiatives that were part of Canada’s "New Deal in Corrections." While prisoners are silent in other criminological and historical texts, here they are central figures: the juxtaposition of their voices with the official administrative, parliamentary, and government records challenges the dominant tropes of progress and provides a more nuanced and complicated reframing of the post-Archambault Commission era. The use of an alternative evidential base, the commitment of the authors to integrating subaltern perspectives, and the first-hand accounts by prisoners of their experiences of incarceration makes this book a highly readable and engaging glimpse behind the bars of Canada’s federal prisons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062967182

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The Prisoners' Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03178500U

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The Prisoner's Antecedents, Statistics Concerning the Previous Life of Offenders Committed to State and Federal Prisons and Reformatories by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Charles Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:$B267021

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The Prisoners of 1776; a Relic of the Revolution by Charles Herbert Pdf

Author : Renaud Morieux
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198723585

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The Society of Prisoners by Renaud Morieux Pdf

In the eighteenth century, as wars between Britain, France, and their allies raged across the world, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, detained, or exchanged. They were shipped across oceans, marched across continents, or held in an indeterminate limbo. The Society of Prisoners challenges us to rethink the paradoxes of the prisoner of war, defined at once as an enemy and as a fellow human being whose life must be spared. Amidst the emergence of new codifications of international law, the practical distinctions between a prisoner of war, a hostage, a criminal, and a slave were not always clear-cut. Renaud Morieux's vivid and lucid account uses war captivity as a point of departure, investigating how the state transformed itself at war, and how whole societies experienced international conflicts. The detention of foreigners on home soil created the conditions for multifaceted exchanges with the host populations, involving prison guards, priests, pedlars, and philanthropists. Thus, while the imprisonment of enemies signals the extension of Anglo-French rivalry throughout the world, the mass incarceration of foreign soldiers and sailors also illustrates the persistence of non-conflictual relations amidst war. Taking the reader beyond Britain and France, as far as the West Indies and St Helena, this story resonates in our own time, questioning the dividing line between war and peace, and forcing us to confront the untenable situations in which the status of the enemy is left to the whim of the captor.

Author : B.A. Paris
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250274151

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The Prisoner by B.A. Paris Pdf

With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER—a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. A USA Today Bestseller! Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned? In the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Therapist, multimillion-copy bestseller B. A. Paris is back with a gripping new suspense novel.

Author : Prison (PHILADELPHIA)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Prisons
ISBN : BL:A0019017913

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Some Account of the Prison at Philadelphia by Prison (PHILADELPHIA) Pdf

Author : Judith Pallott,Elena Katz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786730336

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Waiting at the Prison Gate by Judith Pallott,Elena Katz Pdf

The Russian Federation has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Women in particular are profoundly affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Families and Punishment in Russia details the experiences of these women-be they wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters-who, as relatives of Russia's three-quarters of a million prisoners, are the "invisible victims" of the country's harsh penal policy. A pioneering work that offers a unique lens through which various aspects of life in twenty-first century Russia can be observed: the workings of criminal sub-cultures; societal attitudes to parenthood, marriage and marital fidelity; young women's quests for a husband; nostalgia for the Soviet period; state strategies towards dealing with political opponents; and the social construction of gender roles.

Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839760860

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The Prisoner by Hwang Sok-yong Pdf

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Author : Dorothy Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0931688043

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Prisoners by Dorothy Bryant Pdf

Author : Gran Bretaña. Prison Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5304000858

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Report on the Work of the Prison Department: (1975-1976) by Gran Bretaña. Prison Department Pdf

Author : John M. Sloop
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817353339

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The Cultural Prison by John M. Sloop Pdf

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

Author : Ace Boggess
Publisher : Brick Road Poetry Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0983530475

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The Prisoners by Ace Boggess Pdf

"Ace Boggess's The Prisoners gives voice to those forgotten Americans behind the ever increasing miles of razor wire. Complicated with the mixed emotions of regret and defiance, of loss and perseverance, of hope and frustration, these aren't just persona poems, nor are they just poems of witness; rather these poems are metaphors, too, for the way each of us may feel jailed by circumstance only to find a kind of freedom in the possibilities of poetry." --Gerry LaFemina, author of Vanishing Horizon and Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist

Author : Great Britain. Prison Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015039700037

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Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons by Great Britain. Prison Commission Pdf