Download or read book From Poverty to Prison to Praise written by Lamar Snowden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Poverty, to Prison, to Praise is the journey that I was allowed to take in life in order to be a witness to all those incarcerated or one who may have simply lost hope. I grew up in the poorest neighborhoods in Las Vegas. As a teen and young adult, I became very sexual with countless women and developed a terrible anger problem due to a lack of patience. That anger ultimately exploded one spring morning, and I found myself facing a murder conviction. During my fourteen years in the state of Nevada prisons, I was overtaken by Gods sovereign grace and tender mercies. I made the decision to follow Christ and allowed him to change me and rule over me with his unconditional love. I said yes to Jesus and began to live a life of spiritual standards that can only be achieved if I would trust him and go through whatever was necessary in order to fulfill my calling and ministry of edification to a lost, dying, and confused generation of young men and women who remain incarcerated or living a life in society but having no hope nor direction. This book is to inform you that you can make it! Give God a try. He can do all things but fail. Know undoubtedly that God is able. God can. And God will. If you let him.
Download or read book From Poverty To Prison To Praise written by Lamar Snowden and published by Pageturner, Press and Media. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Poverty, to Prison, to Praise is the journey that I was allowed to take in life in order to be a witness to all those incarcerated or one who may have simply lost hope. I grew up in the poorest neighborhoods in Las Vegas. As a teen and young adult, I became very sexual with countless women and developed a terrible anger problem due to a lack of patience. That anger ultimately exploded one spring morning, and I found myself facing a murder conviction. During my fourteen years in the state of Nevada prisons, I was overtaken by Gods sovereign grace and tender mercies. I made the decision to follow Christ and allowed him to change me and rule over me with his unconditional love. I said yes to Jesus and began to live a life of spiritual standards that can only be achieved if I would trust him and go through whatever was necessary in order to fulfill my calling and ministry of edification to a lost, dying, and confused generation of young men and women who remain incarcerated or living a life in society but having no hope nor direction. This book is to inform you that you can make it! Give God a try. He can do all things but fail. Know undoubtedly that God is able. God can. And God will. If you let him.
Download or read book Prison to Praise written by Merlin R. Carothers and published by Merlin R. Carothers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from Merlin Carothers' book Power in praise.
Download or read book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime written by Elizabeth Hinton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of the Year In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the “land of the free” become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America’s prison problem originated with the Reagan administration’s War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era. “An extraordinary and important new book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker “Hinton’s book is more than an argument; it is a revelation...There are moments that will make your skin crawl...This is history, but the implications for today are striking. Readers will learn how the militarization of the police that we’ve witnessed in Ferguson and elsewhere had roots in the 1960s.” —Imani Perry, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Prison to Praise written by Merlin Carothers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not a Crime to Be Poor written by Peter Edelman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded "Special Recognition" by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards Finalist for the American Bar Association's 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award Named one of the "10 books to read after you've read Evicted" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the demands of social justice in America."—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy Winner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls "a powerful investigation into the ways the United States has addressed poverty . . . lucid and troubling" In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors' prisons of the twenty-first century. The anti-tax revolution that began with the Reagan era led state and local governments, starved for revenues, to squeeze ordinary people, collect fines and fees to the tune of 10 million people who now owe $50 billion. Nor is the criminalization of poverty confined to money. Schoolchildren are sent to court for playground skirmishes that previously sent them to the principal's office. Women are evicted from their homes for calling the police too often to ask for protection from domestic violence. The homeless are arrested for sleeping in the park or urinating in public. A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy and senior official in the Clinton administration, Peter Edelman has devoted his life to understanding the causes of poverty. As Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy has said, "No one has been more committed to struggles against impoverishment and its cruel consequences than Peter Edelman." And former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, "If there is one essential book on the great tragedy of poverty and inequality in America, this is it."
Download or read book From Prison to Praise written by Avery Guliex and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you take a young, naive, and curious teenager, who thought he knew it all, out from the guidance and care of his parents? Trouble! Curiosity brought about rebellion as the mean, unforgiving streets of southeast Houston was too tempting and intriguing to not be a part of. Although Avery was taught correctly and was constantly warned about the dangers that lurked around the corners, he just had to see for himself just what all the fuss was about. The overprotection from his parents was unbearable, and the more that he saw guys from school in and around the neighborhood, the more he thought, "Well, if they can be out there, then I can too. How bad can it be?" It didn't take any time at all before the family-oriented, Christian""church boy image soon turned into a thuggish, hood-boy image. Still unaware of the detrimental impact that went along with this rebellious way of acting, the consequences of wanting this lifestyle came with a devastating price""prison! Here goes a young, lost, and aggravated teenager now about to be plunged into Texas's criminal justice system, having no idea of how to do time or what to expect next. Avery adopted to the street life. Now he reluctantly has to embrace life as a mean, yet fearful convict in prison. God help him!
Download or read book The Upside of Fear written by Weldon Long and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his harrowing journey of self-discovery and how he went from being a drunk in a jail cell to the CEO of a multimillion-dollar business.
Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.
Download or read book From Prison to Praise written by Stephen O. Howard and published by PrintHouse Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I fell asleep at the age of 18 and awoke some 23 years later... "How in the hell did I get here?" I asked myself I often wondered, "How did I get myself in this situation?" A situation which there seemed to be no way of escaping..... There I was sitting on a hard steel bunk. The mattress was as thin as a sheet of metal, my pillow laid on my bunk resembling a flimsy thin pancake on a cold unloved plate. Some of us called this torture we slept on every night a "bed," but this thing did no justice as a bed. As I sat there my mind reflected back to the role I played that caused me to become a prisoner in my own mind, as well as a prisoner in the GA Penal Institution. Hold up! Wait a minute; I think I'm jumping ahead of myself a bit. Let me go back to the beginning, maybe you will understand why I decided to write this book.
Download or read book Poverty and Prison written by "Champ" Napier Chris "Champ" Napier and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris "Champ" Napier was only four years old when he witnessed his father's murder. By the time he was thirteen, Napier had lived in seven different homes in seven different ghettos. Biologically and socially, he was raised in a pool of piranhas, barbarians, and sharks. At eighteen, Napier was convicted of killing a man and was sent to prison. This memoir narrates Napier's story as he navigates a childhood of poverty in Prichard, Alabama; serves more than a decade and a half in prison; and transforms his life by becoming Muslim and devoting his life to Allah. We were so broke I had to eat dry saltine crackers or ketchup sandwiches with the end parts of the bread and drink sugar water, when we didn't have kool-aid. These times were hard for us. ... I can recall a lot of times on the weekend that someone from the club or from somewhere would burglarize our house and we would have to play like we were asleep until they left. The only thing they could not steal was a small black and white TV and portable radio.
Download or read book Prison to Praise written by Merlin R. Carothers and published by Bridge-Logos. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Prison to Praise written by Merlin Robert Carothers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming Ms Burton written by Susan Burton and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir.” —Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times Winner of the prestigious NAACP Image Award, a uniquely American story of trauma, incarceration, and "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander) Widely hailed as a stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton is the remarkable life story of the renowned activist Susan Burton. In this "stirring and moving tour-de-force" (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation into a life of advocacy. After a childhood of immense pain, poverty, and abuse in Los Angeles, the tragic loss of her son led her into addiction, which in turn led to arrests and incarceration. During the War on Drugs, Burton was arrested and would cycle in and out of prison for more than fifteen years. When, by chance, she finally received treatment, her political awakening began and she became a powerful advocate for "a more humane justice system guided by compassion and dignity" (Booklist, starred review). Her award-winning organization, A New Way of Life, has transformed the lives of more than one thousand formerly incarcerated women and is an international model for a less punitive and more effective approach to rehabilitation and reentry. Winner of an NAACP Image Award and named a "Best Book of 2017" by the Chicago Public Library, here is an unforgettable book about "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander).
Download or read book Prison to Praise Power in Praise written by Merlin R. Carothers and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Download or read book From Prison to Praise written by Stephen O. Howard and published by So Howard Ministries. This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 23 years in prison, Stephen Howard discovered the keys to gaining true freedom, not just from physical prisons, but from spiritual, mental, and emotional prisons as well. This is an incredible true story of deliverance and redemption that will change your life.
