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The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

Kevin C. Pyle,Sabrina Jones
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Book PDF

Author : Kevin C. Pyle,Sabrina Jones
Publisher : Pm Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1604860340

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One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. This volume collects the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book is thoroughly researched and documented. Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story of how the financing and site locations of prisons affects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of how mass incarceration affects people of urban communities from where the majority of incarcerated people come from. Prisoners of the War on Drugs includes the history of the war on drugs, mandatory minimums, how racism creates harsher sentences for people of color, stories on how the war on drugs works against women, three strikes laws, obstacles to coming home after incarceration, and how mass incarceration destabilizes neighborhoods. Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children includes stories about women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the "costs" of incarceration for women and their families. Also included are alternatives to the present system, a glossary and footnotes. Over 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent to families of people who are incarcerated, people who are incarcerated and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The book includes a chapter with descriptions about how the comix have been put to use in the work of organizers and activists in prison and in the "free world" by ESL teachers, high school teachers, college professors, students, and health care providers throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring.

Real Cost of Prisons Comix

Lois Ahrens
Real Cost of Prisons Comix Book PDF

Author : Lois Ahrens
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604861761

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Real Cost of Prisons Comix by Lois Ahrens Pdf

One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher. Collected in this volume are the three comic books published by the Real Cost of Prisons Project. The stories and statistical information in each comic book are thoroughly researched and documented. Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story of how the financing and site locations of prisons affects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of how mass incarceration affects people of urban communities where the majority of incarcerated people come from. Prisoners of the War on Drugs includes the history of the war on drugs, mandatory minimums, how racism creates harsher sentences for people of color, stories of how the war on drugs works against women, three strikes laws, obstacles to coming home after incarceration, and how mass incarceration destabilizes neighborhoods. Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children includes stories about women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the “costs” of incarceration for women and their families. Also included are alternatives to the present system, a glossary, and footnotes. Over 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent to people who are incarcerated, to their families, and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The book includes a chapter with descriptions of how the comix have been put to use in the work of organizers and activists in prison and in the “free world” by ESL teachers, high school teachers, college professors, students, and health care providers throughout the country. The demand for the comix is constant and the ways in which they are being used are inspiring.

Prison Town

Kevin Pyle,Craig Gilmore,Real Cost of Prisons Project
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Author : Kevin Pyle,Craig Gilmore,Real Cost of Prisons Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015061183334

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Prison Town by Kevin Pyle,Craig Gilmore,Real Cost of Prisons Project Pdf

A lucid, informative, and digestible comic (illustrated graphic guide is probably more accurate) on the real costs (social, economic, community and personal) of what it means when a prison is built in a (typically poor, rural) town. There are more prisons in America than Wal-Marts. And there are more prisoners in America today than farmers. Kevin Payle and Craig Gilmore lay it all out.

Prisoners of the War on Drugs

Sabrina Jones,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens,Real Cost of Prisons Project
Prisoners of the War on Drugs Book PDF

Author : Sabrina Jones,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens,Real Cost of Prisons Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015061183326

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Prisoners of the War on Drugs by Sabrina Jones,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens,Real Cost of Prisons Project Pdf

A lucid, informative, and digestible comic (illustrated graphic guide is probably more accurate) on the real costs (social, economic, community and personal) of the War On Drugs. Who it targets (Blacks, Latinos and women), and what incarceration (and eventual release) means for those that suffer through it - and their families and communities. Written and illustrated by Sabrina Jones, Ellen Miller-Mack and Lois Ahrens.

Prisoners of a Hard Life

Susan Willmarth,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens
Prisoners of a Hard Life Book PDF

Author : Susan Willmarth,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UOM:39015060784413

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Prisoners of a Hard Life by Susan Willmarth,Ellen Miller-Mack,Lois Ahrens Pdf

Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children by Susan Willmarth, Ellen Miller-Mack, and Lois Ahrens. The comic book includes stories about: women trapped by mandatory sentencing and the War on Drugs, the "costs" ofincarceration for women and their families. A two page story details the trial and sentencing of Regina McKnight. Also included are "Change is Possible" alternatives to the present system, a glossary and footnotes. 20 pages with a four color cover.

Lucasville

Staughton Lynd
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Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604865356

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Lucasville by Staughton Lynd Pdf

Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer
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Author : Marc Mauer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781458722133

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Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer Pdf

In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America. Including newly written material on recent developments under the Bush administration and updated statistics, graphs, and charts throughout, the book tells the tragic story of runaway growth in the number of prisons and jails and the overreliance on imprisonment to stem problems of economic and social development. Called ''sober and nuanced by Publishers Weekly, Race to Incarcerate documents the enormous financial and human toll of the ''get tough movement, and argues for more humane - and productive - alternatives.

Struggle Within

Dan Berger
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Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604869811

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Struggle Within by Dan Berger Pdf

The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist and working-class mobilizations, pacifist and antinuclear campaigns, and earth liberation and animal rights. Berger’s encyclopedic knowledge of American social movements provides a rich comparative history of numerous social movements that continue to shape contemporary politics. The book also offers a little-heard voice in contemporary critiques of mass incarceration. Rather than seeing the issue of America’s prison growth as stemming solely from the war on drugs, Berger locates mass incarceration within a slew of social movements that have provided steep challenges to state power.

(H)afrocentric

Juliana "Jewels" Smith
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Author : Juliana "Jewels" Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 1629634484

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(H)afrocentric by Juliana "Jewels" Smith Pdf

(H)afrocentric tackles racism, the patriarchy, and popular culture head-on. Unapologetic and unabashed, (H)afrocentric introduces us to strong yet vulnerable students of colour, as well as an aesthetic that connects current Black pop culture to an organic re-appropriation of hip hop fashion circa the early 90s. We start the journey when gentrification strikes the neighbourhood surrounding Ronald Reagan University.

Resistance Behind Bars

Victoria Law
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Author : Victoria Law
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604867886

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In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles. This updated and revised edition of the 2009 PASS Award winning book includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.

Four-Legged Girl

Diane Seuss
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Author : Diane Seuss
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555979119

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Four-Legged Girl by Diane Seuss Pdf

"Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer." —Laura Kasischke For, having imagined your body one way I found it to be another way, it was yielding, but only as the Destroying Angel mushroom yields, its softness allied with its poison, and your legs were not petals or tendrils as I'd believed, but brazen, the deviant tentacles beneath the underskirt of a secret queen —from "Oh four-legged girl, it's either you or the ossuary" In Diane Seuss's Four-Legged Girl, her audacious, hothouse language swerves into pain and rapture, as she recounts a life lived at the edges of containment. Ghostly, sexy, and plaintive, these poems skip to the tune of a jump rope, fill a wishing well with desire and other trinkets, and they remember past lush lives in New York City, in rural Michigan, and in love. In the final poem, she sings of the four-legged girl, the body made strange to itself and to others. This collection establishes Seuss's poetic voice, as rich and emotional as any in contemporary poetry.

From the Bottom of the Heap

Robert Hillary King
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Author : Robert Hillary King
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604867916

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From the Bottom of the Heap by Robert Hillary King Pdf

In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six-by-nine-foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. This is his story. It begins at the beginning: born black, born poor, born in Louisiana in 1942, King journeyed to Chicago as a hobo at the age of 15. He married and had a child, and briefly pursued a semi-pro boxing career to help provide for his family. Just a teenager when he entered the Louisiana penal system for the first time, King tells of his attempts to break out of this system, and his persistent pursuit of justice where there is none. Yet this remains a story of inspiration and courage, and the triumph of the human spirit. The conditions in Angola almost defy description, yet King never gave up his humanity, or the work towards justice for all prisoners that he continues to do today. From the Bottom of the Heap, so simply and humbly told, strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome. The paperback edition includes additional writings from Robert King and an update on the case of the Angola 3.

Men in Prison

Victor Serge
Men in Prison Book PDF

Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604869064

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Men in Prison by Victor Serge Pdf

“Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true,” wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. “I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience.” The author of Men in Prison served five years in French penitentiaries (1912–1917) for the crime of “criminal association”—in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous “Tragic Bandits” of French anarchism. “While I was still in prison,” Serge later recalled, “fighting off tuberculosis, insanity, depression, the spiritual poverty of the men, the brutality of the regulations, I already saw one kind of justification of that infernal voyage in the possibility of describing it. Among the thousands who suffer and are crushed in prison—and how few men really know that prison!—I was perhaps the only one who could try one day to tell all… There is no novelist’s hero in this novel, unless that terrible machine, prison, is its real hero. It is not about ‘me,’ about a few men, but about men, all men crushed in that dark corner of society.” Ironically, Serge returned to writing upon his release from a GPU prison in Soviet Russia, where he was arrested as an anti-Stalinist subversive in 1928. He completed Men in Prison (and two other novels) in “semi-captivity” before he was rearrested and deported to the Gulag in 1933. Serge’s classic prison novel has been compared to Dostoyevsky’s House of the Dead, Koestler’s Spanish Testament, Genet’s Miracle of the Rose, and Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch both for its authenticity and its artistic achievement. This edition features a substantial new introduction by translator Richard Greeman, situating the work in Serge’s life and times.

The Black Beetle Volume 1: No Way Out

Francesco Francavilla
The Black Beetle Volume 1 No Way Out Book PDF

Author : Francesco Francavilla
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781616552022

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The Black Beetle Volume 1: No Way Out by Francesco Francavilla Pdf

While investigating a meeting between a pair of powerful mob bosses, the Black Beetle - Colt City's sleuthing sentinel - witnesses an explosion that decimates the city's organized crime community, killing dozens. No one gets away with mass murder when the Black Beetle's on the case. When Colt City cries out for justice, there's one man who will answer! Follow Eisner Award-winning creator Francesco Francavilla's critically acclaimed pulp hero as he searches island prisons, dank sewers, and swanky nightclubs for the mysterious man known as Labyrinto.

Break the Glass

Jean Valentine
Break the Glass Book PDF

Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320147

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Break the Glass by Jean Valentine Pdf

"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry. As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, "This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way." From "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them": At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and damp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if they had any heaters. They had one heater. You are ill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream. * Can you breathe all right? Break the glass shout break the glass force the room break the thread Open the music behind the glass . . . Jean Valentine, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.