Download or read book My Life in Prison Classic Reprint written by Donald Lowrie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Life in Prison I was broke. I had not eaten for three days. I had walked the streets for three nights. Every fibre of my being, every precept of my home training protested against and would not permit my begging. I saw persons all about me spending money for trifles, or luxuries. I envied the ragged street urchin as he took a nickel in exchange for a newspaper and ran expectantly to the next pedestrian. But I was broke and utterly miserable. Have you ever been broke? Have you ever been hungry and miserable, not knowing when or where you were going to get your next meal, nor where you were going to spend your next night? Have you ever tramped holes in your shoes in a tiresome, discouraging effort to get work, meeting rebuff and insults in return for your earnestness and sincerity, and encountering an utter lack of an understanding of your crying necessity in those with whom you have pleaded for a chance? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book My Life Out of Prison Classic Reprint written by Donald Lowrie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Life Out of Prison August first, nineteen hundred and eleven! To you that probably conveys nothing; to me it is a never-to-be-forgotten day, the marking of an epoch in my life - a life up to that time brimful of tragic experience and vivid impressions. Since that time my life has been equally vivid, if not tragic, though in a different way. It was on that date, after spending ten years behind stultifying steel bars and stolid stone walls, ten years in stripes and in the midst of degradation, that I was paroled from San Quentin prison. To-day this prison is the domicile of the broken-spirited ex-political boss of San Francisco, the lifelong habitat of hundreds of hopeless men and women, the living grave of nearly 2000 human beings, each of whom is a cog in the ponderous, grinding wheel of human progress, for no man nor woman suffering a ruptured life in a prison cell is a less important unit in the evolution of humanity than is the money king, the man with the hoe or the minister of the gospel. No human being has yet lived and no human being now lives who has not or does not serve an important purpose in the great scheme of things. The fact that each human being comes into the world with latent propensities, certain temperamental characteristics and well-defined likes and dislikes has always been a source of speculation for me. I believe that every thought of every human being is of immense value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book My Prison Life Classic Reprint written by Jabez Spencer Balfour and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Prison Life The present work is my answer to this request. It contains the bulk of what has appeared, carefully revised throughout, and in some parts rewritten. It is divested of many incidental reminiscences and anecdotes which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Memorials of Prison Life Classic Reprint written by James Bradley Finley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorials of Prison Life In regard to the matter of the volume, I feel at liberty to say, that every word of it can be relied on as fact; and I have endeavored, by the exercise of some care, to have as few errors of opinion as would be possible in such a work. It is possible, that, in the labor of transcribing, some things may have taken a shade not contemplated in the first draft; but everywhere, it has been mv design to adhere strictly to the facts as I knew them, without coloring a single incident for effect. The truth of it is, the facts themselves, which came to light during a protracted residence in one of our great penitentiaries, are sufficiently pungent and thrilling, without the help of fiction; and the nearer a writer can come to the realities actually around him, the more graphic, as well as instructive, will be his book. Such, at least, was my firm conviction in the preparation of these pages; and I have, consequently, endeavored to relate what I saw, and heard, and experienced, during my first year as chaplain of the Ohio state prison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book I Was in Prison Classic Reprint written by F. Brocklehurst and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from I Was in Prison Wards the removal of the evils which I describe. Apart altogether from the general question of Prison Reform, it is nothing short of a disgrace that men who suffer for conscience sake should be compelled to undergo the rigours of prison diet and discipline just as though they were the greatest criminals in the land. They ought at the very least to be treated as first-class misdemeanants, allowed to wear their own clothing, read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Twenty Five Years in Seventeen Prisons written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Five Years in Seventeen Prisons: The Life-Story of an Ex-Convict, With His Impressions of Our Prison System But here was the place where the shoe pinched. It was necessary, before I could fulfil my promise, to raise the wind somehow, and on the very next morning, as I was in charge of the foundry, some man who owed my employer 2 came in and paid his bill. I was in real distress of mind at the time as to how I was to get the needful funds, and here came the temptation, which I could not resist. Truly The sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.' This was just what happened to me on that morn ing. The sight Of those 'two golden sovereigns, which I felt could purchase so much pleasure for Norah and myself - for my greatest pleasure then was to please her - overcame all other feelings, and, for the first time in my life, I acted dishonestly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book Scenes of Clerical Life Classic Reprint written by George Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Clerical Life Litany, only to feel with more intensity my burst into the conspicuousness of public life when I was made to stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Fifty Years of Prison Service written by Zebulon Reed Brockway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of Prison Service: An Autobiography Retrospection now reveals more clearly than was seen while the years wore on, a mystic thread that joins events in one eventuality. Whether Fortune, Fate, or Providence, none can deny that the origin and the relations of the self are beyond the individual control. He who reads the following pages may dis cern, between the lines, that which open eyes discover in every life and in all things, - the rule of Supreme Will, determinant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Prison Life in the Old Capitol written by James J. Williamson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prison Life in the Old Capitol: And Reminiscences of the Civil War It is not my intention in my prison diary to discuss the constitutional or legal question of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of non-combatants, but to present to my readers a picture of the daily routine of prison life as I saw it, together with incidents related to me by fellow-prisoners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book After Prison What Classic Reprint written by Maud Ballington Booth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from After Prison What? My point of view is that of the cell. All I know of this great sad problem that casts its shadow so much further than the high walls of prison I have learned from those for whom I work, and my great joy in every labor is the knowledge that the boys are with me. In Speaking of them thus I do so in prison parlance; for just as Masons on the floor call each other Brothers; soldiers in camp Comrades; men in college Fellows so we of the prison use the term The Boys, and leave unspoken that hated word Convict, which seems to vibrate with the sound of clanging chains and shuffling lock-step. If I do not write of others, who, during the past century, have worked in prison reform, it is not that I have disregarded their efforts, but as this is a record of what I have personally seen and learned, space and time will not permit the recording of experiences which can doubtless be read elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Walls and Bars Classic Reprint written by Eugene Victor Debs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Walls and Bars My prison experience includes three county jails, one state penitentiary, and one federal prison - I have no personal grievance to air. Special favors were never accorded me, nor would I accept any - Introduced to jail life in Chicago, 1894. - Recognized my kinship with prisoners everywhere - Prison problem is co-related with poverty which is a social disease - Any of us may go to prison at any time for breaking the law or upholding it. - My spirit was never imprisoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Battle of the Crater and Experiences of Prison Life Classic Reprint written by Sumner Upham Shearman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Battle of the Crater and Experiences of Prison Life I have been asked by the Society under whose auspices we are gathered to-night to tell you some thing oi my personal experiences in the Battle of the Mine, or of the Crater, as it is sometimes called, and to supplement those experiences with some account of my life in a Southern prison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Prison Writings written by Leonard Peltier and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Download or read book Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape Classic Reprint written by Daniel Avery Langworthy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape Soon after my escape from captivity and my arrival at the home of my father-in - law, at Elmira, New York, where my good wife was, my sister Sarah, who was older than myself, and her husband, came to see me. She sat down by my side and said: Now Daniel, tell me all about it. How you were captured, how treated while a prisoner of war, how you made your escape and worked your way from Columbia, South Carolina, to Elmira. She held me to a strict account until she had the full story. I then told her that if after that I should be asked about it I would refer them to her (she would have given a good narrative), but unfortunately she is not living now. I have never been much inclined to talk about my prison life, nor had thought of writing about it until recently when some of my comrades, who had been talking with me about it, sug gested and strongly urged that I write it out. The result of which is these reminiscences. Doubtless I could have told this story betterfifty years ago, for, as I did not keep a diary or any memorandum, it is entirely from mem ory, yet the events made a fixed impression on my mind and I believe that what I have herein narrated is correct. I was born January 3rd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Bright Side of Prison Life written by Samuel A. Swiggett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bright Side of Prison Life: Experiences, in Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Sojourner in Rebeldom The author's name and reputation may sell this book miracles have happened; but he does not intend to permit the possible deception of a confiding public into the belief that they cannot exist Without reading it. The possible qiurchaser is hereby warned that it is different from any other book he ever read. It is Without plot, moral, bistori cal value, mystery, romance, horrors and murderous scenes. The best excuse to be offered for its existence is the fact that the author's numerous friends have repeatedly urged him to print' What they call an interesting and unusual series of incidents. The responsibility for any injury to the public must rest upon the heads of these friends, the author not holding himself accountable for anything except the truth of the narration. My friends being pleased With this publication, it may be safe for others to try it, but they must not blame me for any lack of appreciation. Trusting that this warning will prevent the unsuspecting from buying the book solely on account of the author's literary reputation, the result is awaited with fear and trembling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Seventeen Years in Prison With Adventures and Anecdotes Classic Reprint written by Granville Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventeen Years in Prison, With Adventures and Anecdotes I'vvast defeated in the'eleetion. H' New thosefwho are in the habitfooft tracing effects to their causes, may find inithi'scircumstance ithe remote cause-of all theprivations, suffering and '?desolatirtg grief, which has pur sued me from that day to this. For instead of feeling elevated and: proud, that a beysas I then was, had beenmamcd or even thought of infconnectien with such'an' office; 1. Felt chagrined ahdmortified to such a degree, zthat..i immediately left the State, where, I persuaded myself I had' beendisgtiaced, aand went to the stateofgeorgia, determined to obiiteraie, if possit ble, all recollection of what I felt to be 'so humbling. 1. There wastpride, unmixed pride and obstinancy in that act, which'in itsconsequences, sickens therheart to.contemplate. But I must not indulge too freely in the recital of my feelings; I have pro posed to give a true detail of facts, -and asifflj' as a' retentive memory will enable me. To do so, i will redeem that promise. Some few monthsafter my arrival img'reorgia', Jamarried a wife, andpsettled down, as I then thought for the.balance of mylife. I had' more than in-cash, andtheiprop'erty w ich my wife brought me, was worth nearly as much more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book In Prison and Out Classic Reprint written by Hesba Stretton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Prison and Out Murmur. It was God's will. She said to herself, finding something like peace in the belief. There was a darker depth of misery to which she had not yet sunk, - that of feeling there was no God at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.