Download or read book A Woman in a Man s World written by Gina Marie Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you work as a correctional officer in a maximum-security prison, you run the risk of death every day. You can feel the evil all around. When those gates close behind you, you don't know if you are going to walk out alive at the end of your shift. You learn to really value and appreciate every single second that you have. *** Gina Marie Rivera has had to literally learn to fight to survive, not because she wanted to, but because she had to. Rivera grew up the victim of sex abuse from a family member. When she was eleven, she vowed "No more!" and fought back using only her bare hands as weapons. She fought so hard that her would-be attacker left her alone. Gina never realized that she would have to fight for her life yet another time. She fought off not only one inmate, but two! Gina saved her life and the life of her male partner, her coworker. *** Gina is a retired correctional officer who worked in one of the most notorious all-male prisons in Southern California. She is excited to share with you her new book, A Woman in a Man's World, and hopes to empower, motivate, and inspire women everywhere, especially her fellow sisters and brothers in green and in law enforcement.
Download or read book Inside the Dark Underbelly of Rikers Island written by Robin Miller and published by Robin K Miller. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Robin K Miller is still locked up inside Rikers Island, along with the spirit of her deceased sister. The current upheavals and violence taking place in and around the infamous Island are also taking place inside Robin's tortured heart. A correction guard at Rikers Island for 20 years, Robin's story is not merely a bold and brave expose of what really happens "behind closed doors," it is the deeply intimate and wrenching odyssey of a woman who has survived the un-survivable, and who is committed to sharing her truth. Her story is the ultimate triumph over darkness and corruption. The other story is that of an institution riddled with decay and corruption. Together theirs form a strident call to action for the entire American penal system.
Download or read book Corruption Officer written by Gary L. Heyward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infamous Rikers Island jails. Gary Heyward’s life changed forever when he received a letter from the New York City Department of Corrections announcing he was accepted into the academy for new recruits. For the Harlem-born ex-Marine, being an officer of the law was the ticket he’d been waiting for to move up from a low-wage security job and out of the Polo Ground Projects in New York City—and take his mother with him. Heyward was warned of the temptations he’d encounter as a new officer, but when faced with financial hardship, he suddenly found himself unable to resist the income generated from selling contraband to inmates. In his distinctive voice, Heyward takes you on a journey inside the walls of Rikers Island, showing how he teamed up with various inmates and other officers to develop a system that allowed him to profit from selling drugs inside the jail. Corruption Officer is a jarring exposé of a man having lived on both sides of the law, a rare insider’s look at a corrupt city jail, and a testament to the lengths we’ll go when our backs are against the wall.
Download or read book Police Women written by Sandra K. Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment and sexual harrassment, examining what issues play into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. It is often said that a woman must do a job twice as well as a man in order to get half the credit. This is particularly true of women in law enforcement. Women have been involved in various forms of policing for the last 100 years, but it wasn't until the Equal Employment Act of 1970 that women could move from the job of meter maids to patrol and detective work. Yet less than 1% of all top-level cops are women, and there remain significant obstacles in the career paths of women in the force. This book looks at the history of women police officers and provides first-hand accounts of women at every level, including those who drop out. It addresses discrimination, competition, lack of mentoring, differential treatment, and sexual harrassment. It looks at what plays into the decision to stick it out or leave that many policewomen face. It also considers the family issues these women return home to at the end of the day. Unlike other treatments of the subject, Alt and Wells show how women have changed police work into a more community-oriented model of policing, reduced police violence, served as a strong force to promote a more effective response to domestic violence within police departments, and helped with community-police relations. With a combination of first-hand accounts, careful research, and lively analysis, the authors are able to convey the actual experiences of women who have made their careers behind the shield.
Download or read book At Work in the Iron Cage written by Dana M. Britton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comparative analysis of men's and women's prisons, Dana Britton identifies the factors that influence the genderization of the American workplace, a process that often leaves women in lower-paying jobs with less prestige and responsibility.
Download or read book Slumber Party from Hell written by Sue Ellen Allen and published by Inkwell Productions. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a successful woman when her world falls apart and she is faced with betrayal, breast cancer, and prison? What happens when her pain Is unimaginable and her choices look bleak. When all this happened to Sue Ellen Allen, she chose to turn her pain into power. The death of Gina, her young roommate, coupled with an atmosphere of darkness and negativity, led her to find her passion and purpose behind the bars. Her experience of cancer, prison, and Gina s death is an inspirational story of courage, wisdom, and choices.
Download or read book Doing Justice Doing Gender written by Susan Ehrlich Martin and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into the long-standing struggle of women in criminal justice occupations to move beyond the barriers of gender segregation is provided in this book. The authors take a close look at the organization of justice occupations along gender lines and in doing so discuss issues such as the historical roles of women in the criminal justice system; the expansion of women's assignments and contributions in the past 20 years; the barriers that women in justice occupations have encountered at an interpersonal, organizational, occupational and societal level; the performance of women in more responsible and onerous positions, and their response to workplace barriers; and the effect of women on the criminal justice system, victims, offenders, co-workers, and the public.
Download or read book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement written by Kevin M. Gilmartin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.
Download or read book Their Sisters Keepers written by Estelle B. Freedman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America
Download or read book Code Blue Prison Officer in Danger written by Bruce Perham and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the trauma experienced by prison officers in managing prisoners.It is 'in the prison officers own words' with some psychological reflections from the Author.The book in particular follows the story of Neil'Rowdy' O'Rourke,a prison officer for 33 years,his descent into PTSD and it's subsequent impact on his family.
Download or read book All Too Familiar written by Dorothy Q. Thomas and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal and State Law
Download or read book The Changing Career of the Correctional Officer written by Don A. Josi and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1998-03-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory text on the changing nature of correctional officer careers, focusing on personnel, management, and organizational issues.
Download or read book American Prison written by Shane Bauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.
Download or read book Correction Officer s Guide to Understanding Inmates written by Larone Koonce and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From back cover : " Larone Koonce is a retired New York City Correction Officer with nearly twenty years of experience supervising New York's most notorious inmates. Drug king-pins, mass murderers, rapists, arsonist, Mafia Dons etc. In this guidebook he shares the techniques used by the best correction officers and prison guards"
Download or read book My Daddy is a Correctional Officer written by Donna Miele and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect book for the children of Correctional Officers to read before leaving for work, or at any time. A great way to remind your children how much you love them even when you can't always be there due to the nature of your job. A children's story about their Correctional Officer Daddy and what his job entails, while being sure to note that above all else, his children are what is most important to him.
Download or read book Cases in Corrections written by Michael Braswell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Corrections Executives written by Kimberly Collica-Cox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through firsthand accounts this book explores women's roles from their initial entry into corrections work through their careers to executive roles, documenting their successes and struggles.
