Download or read book Twenty Million Angry Men written by James M. Binnall and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.
Download or read book Advocate for the Convicted Felon written by Wise and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has a history of being courageous, conquerors and brave. However, there are issues in its backyard that has either been ignored or over looked; that is the issue of the convicted felon. There are barriers that prohibit felons from obtaining employment, gaining occupational licensing and even voting. I learned in life that every situation or circumstance has a root. The convicted felon issue has roots that has been seeded throughout American history. I use my personal story growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens; then I give an essay of how I perceive these circumstances came about. Lastly, I turn to the laws of America. I attempt to show how the laws in America worked for the African American. In a nutshell, I attempt to show how American society has systematically created what we know as "The Felon"
Download or read book Twenty Million Angry Men written by James M. Binnall and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability.
Download or read book 142 Thoughts of a Convicted Felon written by Damon L. Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 142 Thoughts Of A Convicted Felon is an insightful beautifully composed composition of moving meaningful poems, reflections, and sentiments of Damon Smith while he served 17 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.
Download or read book Convicted Felon written by Darron Coleman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS THE STORY OF a STREET HUSTLER. ANOTHER AMERICAN GANGSTER. THE STORY OF a YOUNG MAN WHO CAME FROM a MODEST UP BRINGING AND HAD ALL THE POTENTIAL IN THE WORLD, THEN CAME CRACK COCAINE. THE STORY OF a YOUNG MAN FEELING HIS WAY THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT a FATHER, a MENTOR, OR GUIDE. THE STORY OF a YOUNG MAN WONDERING BLINDLY TO FRO WITH NO REAL PLANS FOR HIS FUTURE. THE STORY OF a DRUG PEDDLER WHO HUSTLED DRUGS TO EAT AND FEED HIS FAMILY, GOT BUSTED AND SPENT THE NEXT 8 YEARS IN THE 2ND LARGEST PENAL SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES. THE TEXAS DEPARMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Download or read book The Chains of Change written by James Wieland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates put the total felon population, those in and out of prison, at roughly 20 million. A felony conviction restricts a person's ability to find decent housing, secure employment and a beneficial social standing. Along with these restrictions is the increased chance of re-offending due to the lack of resources available to offer felons help. Chains of Change is dedicated to providing the general path of success many people have taken in order to improve their lives. It is written from the perspective of a convicted felon, James Wieland, to offer help for other convicted felons and their friends and family. This guide focuses on simple and straightforward advice to help felons get back on their feet and deal with the public stigma of "criminal."
Download or read book Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Felony written by Shannon Dailey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Do you have a criminal past?*Do you desire to change and grow?*Do you want employment? Or have a job but seek to get promoted? Shannon Dailey, author of Dirt Road to Smooth Pavement, takes you on a journey through his personal life as a college dropout and a two-time convicted felon. He walks you through his experience as a convicted felon who left his past behind, found work as a temporary placement employee, grew his career into management as an executive for a regional franchise, and then became a successful business owner. Have You Ever Been Convicted of an Felony? is full of practical tips and proven strategies on how to get the job and more. Today is the day to start on your path to the new, improved you!What are you waiting for?
Download or read book Tough Cases written by Russell Canan and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation. . . . Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.” —Justin Driver, The Washington Post A rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases—Law and Order from behind the bench—including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy—all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It's the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them. In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance U.S. law with tribal law, a young Korean American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman who has killed her own children. Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating reading for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.
Download or read book Myths Memoirs and Confessions of an Ex Felon written by RoMay and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of an ex convicts rise, fall and redemption from the streets, through prison and eventually to become a media mogul.
Download or read book Thoughts of a Convicted Felon Live From The LA County Jail Live From The LA County Jail written by Clinzell Washington and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinzell pens his first literary work, Thoughts of a Convicted Felon: Live from The L. A. County Jail. This is a collection of poetry and essays. Clinzell addresses a wide range of topics with real talk. You will get a glimpse of the mindset of those behind the walls. You will discover that those behind bars are not all asleep-but conscientious and having solutions for the world's problems. Cinzell book covers topics beneath the following heading and much more. Our Story VS His-Story Products of my Environment Cell Time In The Dark Universal Thoughts The beginning of The End Snitch Factors Jail Bar & Karma Gentrification He shares a lot about love and relationships. Clinzell is a veteran of the "Game" of life, he entered the game at the age of eleven. He is a conscientious survivor of street life, and he wants to help others who were pushed to the streets to soon and before they had wings to fly.
Download or read book Guidelines Manual written by United States Sentencing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Felonies a Day written by Harvey Silverglate and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
Download or read book Felon Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
Download or read book Life as a Convicted Felon written by Eric J. Trudell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living in Infamy written by Pippa Holloway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Infamy uncovers the origins of felon disfranchisement and traces the expansion of the practice to felons regardless of race and its spread beyond the South, establishing a system that affects the American electoral process today.
Download or read book Completing an Employment Application written by Shannon Dailey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW STRUGGLE TO GET EMPLOYED DUE TO A PAST CRIMINAL RECORD? My name is Shannon Dailey, I wrote Dirt Road to Smooth Pavement, which outlines my double conviction for drug trafficking and a weapons charge. I tell the story of how my life changed dramatically from making poor choices in my teen years as a drug dealer, with a limited work history, to leaving the street behind. I also wrote Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Felony?. This workbook is designed to unpack tips, suggestions, and best practices from books that I wrote. This workbook goes hand in hand with Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Felony? Discover how to: -Complete an Employment Application correctly -Boost your confidence when writing about yourself -Help you get the job
Download or read book Guilty Until Proven Innocent written by D. Corbett Everidge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent until proven guilty or guilty until proven innocent? D. Corbett Everidge cannot vote, own a firearm, or hold public office: he is a convicted felon. But did he actually commit the crime? In this true-life legal drama, former magistrate D. Corbett Everidge chronicles the events of the summer of 2005 and the ensuing criminal trial that led to a felony conviction and the end of his criminal justice career. He then asks you to assess the evidence and make your own reasonable decision about whether he is, indeed, innocent or guilty as charged. Everidge gives personal insight into his career and background to illustrate that guilt in a complex society is not always a matter of black and white. He also challenges many beliefs regarding the modern criminal justice system in the United States, effectively drawing a line between the theoretical and the actual. Ultimately, Guilty Until Proven Innocent is an intriguing literary criminal trial in which you decide the outcome. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what is your verdict?
