The White Prisoner

Author : Ognian Georgiev,Velizar Stefanov,Chris Feetom,Ilko Germanov
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499573499

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The White Prisoner by Ognian Georgiev,Velizar Stefanov,Chris Feetom,Ilko Germanov Pdf

This wasn't the first time Galabin Boevski felt oppressed. He had suffered the atrocious legacy of communism and the lack of support that a talented athlete like him should otherwise expect from his motherland.It had been a week since his arrest. He'd spent a night in the jail of Sao Paulo's airport, then transferred to another Brazilian prison for temporary detention. Now he was in Itai, a prison for foreigners, full of people from all over the world.His memories kept rushing in and he kept going over the unfortunate events over and over. What went wrong? He spent his first night in jail with 1500 prisoners who were serving their sentences there - murderers, rapists, fraudsters and thieves, but the majority of them people like him - accused of drug trafficking. "I'm not a mule," he thought, "I am Galabin Boevski. Legendary weightlifter and Olympic champion, not a criminal!" ...based on a true story... ------------------------------------------------------ Galabin Boevski is a complicated figure and weightlifting is a complex sport, filled with intrigue and drama. On the stage, the bar does not lie. You either lift it or not. Behind the scenes, however, as The White Prisoner: Galabin Boevski's Secret Story makes plain, it can be an enormous struggle not just to become Olympic champion but to stay on top. Alan Abrahamson, bestselling author I read the entire volume in two days. I could not put it down. The plot lines leading up to what would hopefully reveal the final athletic and legal outcomes of Boevski were compelling. Mr. Georgiev has done a master job of story telling. One that will provide a much need insight into the psyches, personalities and foibles of star weightlifters and their coaches. Bob Takano, coach and author of Olympic weightlifting It's quite a fascinating story, with quite a bit of drama, as well as elements of tragedy. I found it to be a very gripping and compelling read. Daniel Rosen, author of Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today The White Prisoner provides a rare glimpse into the world of Bulgarian weightlifting-chronicling the development of Olympic gold medalist, world champion and world record holder Galabin Boevski, and how things went awry: first in weightlifting and then in Brazil. If you are a weightlifting fan, this is a must-read book, and if you want to be introduced to a gritty world and a universal sport you might never have known existed, you will also want to dive into The White Prisoner. Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. , Founder & President, IronMind Enterprises, Inc.

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681378411

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Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet Pdf

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For Genet's most overtly political book is also his most personal—the last step in the unrepentantly sacrilegious pilgrimage first recorded in The Thief's Journal, and a searching meditation, packed with visions, ruses, and contradictions, on such life-and-death issues as the politics of the image and the seductive and treacherous character of identity. Genet's final masterpiece is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.

Author : Menachem Begin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Jews, Belarusian
ISBN : 9655220141

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White Nights by Menachem Begin Pdf

Autobiographical memoir by Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, describing his imprisonment in the Soviet gulag labour camps during 1940-1942. Along with a description of the author's own harrowing experiences in the camps, the book contains various observations on the real-life operation of the Soviet system and the psychology of some of its minions.

Author : S. R. White
Publisher : Headline
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472268490

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Prisoner by S. R. White Pdf

24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY? 'A rising star of Australian crime fiction... White's account of the murder investigation is gripping.' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS. *** From THE AUSTRALIAN TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** When a man is found savagely 'crucified' amidst a murky swamp in northern Australia, detective Dana Russo and her team are called to a shocking scene. The victim is a convicted rapist, just released from prison, who years earlier committed an atrocious crime yards from where he was killed. Who murdered him - and why? With several potential leads, the investigation quickly becomes more complex, and sinister, than anyone imagined. And Dana realises she'll have to confront her own troubled past to understand the true motives of the killer... A twisting, compelling and utterly haunting new novel from the international bestseller, perfect for fans of Jane Harper's THE DRY and Chris Hammer's SCRUBLANDS. Praise for S. R. White: 'A taut, beautifully observed slow-burner with an explosive finish.' Peter May 'Original, compelling and highly recommended.' Chris Hammer 'A fascinating case' SUNDAY TIMES 'It draws you in - and rewards with a truly powerful ending.' HEAT 'This slow-burn novel catches light' THE SUN 'A dark and compulsive read' WOMAN & HOME

Author : Deborah H. Drake,Rod Earle,J. Sloan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137403889

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The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography by Deborah H. Drake,Rod Earle,J. Sloan Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent their finished work. The Handbook offers urgent insights relevant to current trends in the growth of imprisonment worldwide. In an era of mass incarceration, human-centric ethnography provides an important counter to quantitative analysis and the audit culture on which prisons are frequently judged. The Handbook is divided into four parts. Part I ('About Prison Ethnography') assesses methodological, theoretical and pragmatic issues related to the use of ethnographic and qualitative enquiry in prisons. Part II ('Through Prison Ethnography') considers the significance of ethnographic insights in terms of wider social or political concerns. Part III ('Of Prison Ethnography') analyses different aspects of the roles ethnographers take and how they negotiate their research settings. Part IV ('For Prison Ethnography') includes contributions that convincingly extend the value of prison ethnography beyond the prison itself. Bringing together contributions by some of the world's leading scholars in criminology and prison studies, this authoritative volume maps out new directions for future research. It will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, academics and researchers who use qualitative social research methods to further their understanding of prisons.

Author : John M. Sloop
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Anthea Hucklesby,Lystra Hagley-Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134004065

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Prisoner Resettlement by Anthea Hucklesby,Lystra Hagley-Dickinson Pdf

Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts. Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women, minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and high-risk offenders.

Author : James White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:317759833

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Open Prison by James White Pdf

Author : Vince Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Drug traffic
ISBN : 0692995706

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Prisoner of War by Vince Wade Pdf

Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs is the true tale of the FBI¿s youngest recruit in the failed attempt to stop the flow of illegal narcotics. It is the War on Drugs as seen from the trenches of battles America lost. Richard J. Wershe, Jr. was a white kid who didn¿t do drugs, but he lived in a racially mixed neighborhood and he knew some bad people. Among them was a powerful and politically-connected black drug operation. Wershe¿s father was a business hustler willing to put his son¿s life at grave risk for FBI informant cash. Young Wershe did a good job as a drug spy for the FBI. Perhaps too good.The drug gang inadvertently killed a 13-year old boy. When Rick told the FBI about top-level police corruption in the homicide investigation, he became too hot. The FBI dropped him as an informant. Cast adrift, young Wershe made the bad decision to use the crime skills law enforcement had taught him. He tried to become a cocaine wholesaler, got caught and was sentenced to life in prison by age 18. His trial was a media sensation and reporters labeled him White Boy Rick, falsely accusing him of being a ¿drug lord¿ and drug ¿kingpin.¿ White Boy Rick became a Prisoner of the War on Drugs.As the book documents, the tragic tale of White Boy Rick Wershe is part of a lost ¿war¿ that mimics Prohibition¿with the same results.

Author : Love Forever Sincerely Yours
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781665563963

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Prison Eyes by Love Forever Sincerely Yours Pdf

“... highly encouraged... instructed... Truthful Wisdom and sound... understandable and infected “... inviting and overcoming... inspiration and heart gripping... refreshing fast pace reading...” Prison eyes is a walk into prisons of long lost love one’s. Many of us have someone that’s behind bars. Follow Love Forever as he take you into the very eyes of prison. Watch the suffer and pain unfold right before your eyes. Journey through with Love Forever as he take you through the reality of understanding the pain that your love one’s suffer. Feel the devastation as he take your hand and show you the forgotten and the everyday trails that take place in the eyes that have inspired so many to flee from a life of sin, the prison eyes.

Author : Jeremy Travis,Christy Visher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521849160

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Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America by Jeremy Travis,Christy Visher Pdf

The contributors question the causes of public concern about the number of returning prisoners, the public safety consequences of prisoners returning to the community and the political and law enforcement responses to the issue.

Author : Neil Davie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030838911

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French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816 by Neil Davie Pdf

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution, conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the midst of the long-running wars against France, and destined, not for criminals, but for French and later American prisoners of war. During a period of six and a half years, more than 20,000 captives passed through its gates. Drawing on contemporary official records from Britain, France and the USA, and a wealth of prisoners’ letters, diaries and memoirs (many of them studied here in detail for the first time), this book examines how Dartmoor War Prison was conceived and designed; how it was administered both from London and on the ground; how the fate of its prisoners intertwined with the military and diplomatic history of the period; and finally how those prisoners interacted with each other, with their captors, and with the wider community. The history of the prison on the moor is one marked by high hopes and noble intentions, but also of neglect, hardship, disease and death

Author : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Convict labor
ISBN : UIUC:30112072658278

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The Prison Problem in the District of Columbia by United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration Pdf

Author : Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000215939

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Prison Writing and the Literary World by Michelle Kelly,Claire Westall Pdf

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prison and the literary world.

Author : James Madison Page
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664125415

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The True Story of Andersonville Prison by James Madison Page Pdf

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "The True Story of Andersonville Prison" represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. The author brings his defense of the prison commander Henry Wirz, who was charged by the U.S. Government and executed after the Civil War. The author's description of the trial, conviction, and execution of Wirz is extremely sympathetic and provides an alternative view of the Confederacy in the Civil War.