Download or read book Prison Humor written by Walter Allen and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a collection of jokes from prisoners. Some are straight nasty; some are gut-busting funny. We've got to do something behind these walls to pass the time and laugh ... and this is what some of us do!These are all jokes by prisoners in the Pennsylvania State Prison System.And they say prison is boring. :-)Fresh & funny....you'll find yourself laughing outloud!!!!
Download or read book Prison Humor written by Walter Allen and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a collection of jokes from prisoners. Some are straight nasty; some are gut-busting funny. We've got to do something behind these walls to pass the time and laugh ... and this is what some of us do! These are all jokes by prisoners in the Pennsylvania State Prison System. And they say prison is boring. Fresh & funny....you'll find yourself laughing out loud!!!!
Download or read book If You Don t Laugh You ll Cry written by Claire Schmidt and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to prison workers as they share stories, debate the role of corrections in American racial politics and social justice, and talk about the important function of humor in their jobs.
Download or read book Rancid Prison Jokes written by Paul Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rancid Prison Jokes" is a compilation of humor, often homophobic, racist and sexist, created and documented by the incarcerated author, Paul Whitmore. Anyone with a relative or friend in prison will find this book both humorous and informative. People who are or have been incarcerated will find much of this book funny and sometimes cathartic. In this book, Whitmore expresses the prison culture found in CA Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Through witticisms, wisecracks and wordplay, he documents and parodies the darker side of humanity showing its fallibilities and strengths. This book not only exposes the society behind bars, but brings to light the people who live there; complex and dynamic. As a lifer, the majority of the author's friends are also lifers; the most notorious and nefarious of criminals. Through their pain and fear, these people have founded a life and find joy, love and occasionally redemption. "Rancid Prison Jokes" shows the humor necessary to survive in such an environment, and expresses the author's effort to maintain his own sanity in an insane environment.Come join the foolery; laugh, love and learn about life in the toughest prisons in the United States. NOTE: if you are easily offended...GROW UP! This is Trump's America!
Download or read book Stones for Sanity written by Ron Nagy and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison humor from an old jail guard. The Author is a retired Prison Guard who resides in Western New York State. Everyone came to jail for various reasons. I was hired as a jail officer. I felt I could make a positive difference in the lives of especially the younger first time offenders. I began one of the biggest and longest lessons of my life. Humor is one positive outlet of inner tensions for both Inmates and Officers. This book is about the humorous side. I ended up working on the prison farm. The Farm was an outside the prison walls work program that would hopefully be enough of a lesson for the guys not to come back to jail. Fernando was mentally slow and very gullible. Tiny was a huge guy with a humorous side and a donut addiction. Gary was a talented Carpenter with a drinking problem. The Farm House Mouse proved how many guys were terrified of mice including me. Floyd was a salesman of illegal substances with no common sense. The Axe man was a tree murderer with a no nonsense mom. Everyone had a nickname and that also included the Officers. I made sure the farm inmates had enough donuts and that got me in trouble at times. Before Billy had come to jail he had had school and family problems and like so many others numbed his mind with alcohol; except he was not a happy drunk and had too many buttons to push.
Download or read book A Funny Thing Happened in Prison the Other Day written by Tom Hattersley and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From over 130 stories, posted on social media over three years of the author's weekly prison volunteer work, this book provides a unique perspective on prison life, prison personalities, and prison problems. Written as 123 vignettes in 13 chapters, this is an easy and engaging read with an ending that surprised even the author.
Download or read book Prison Diary a written by Joey Reghitto and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to go to prison? Of course not. What normal person would? But haven't you wondered what it would be like? To be locked up? To do hard time? What is it really like? Is it as bad as the movies? It can't be, can it? Spoiler alert: it is! How did I cope with it? By making jokes out of the situation, which is easier said than done some days. I wanted to write something unique, something different than you have ever seen before. Anyone can write seriously about prison, it is a serious place. But who can make jokes out of it? That's right, me! Enjoy this humorous, depressing, roller coaster of an experience in one of the most notorious prisons in US history, San Quentin State Penitentiary.
Download or read book 100 Filthy Raunchy Jailhouse Jokes written by Larry "Rocky" Harris and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: jokes heard in prison
Download or read book Jokes I Heard in Prison written by Tom Hatchett and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ama's story goes from fairy tale to hard times, as she finds herself as a school drop-out, with no money and a young son to raise. She was estranged from her parents. Her fiancé and the father of her son was incarcerated. He was being detained by officers of a state agency. An unwitting incident from her past catches up with her and compounds her current problems. Ama's is subpoenaed to be a prosecution witness in a case against some young men believed to be the killers of a fellow student six years prior. Used to having others do for her, Ama's struggles to get her life back on track by herself and on her own terms. With some help from her parents, now reunited with her, Ama begins to piece her life back together. She goes back to college, no longer the heartless young thing that only enjoyed the attention of older men with money. This time Ama is older and wiser and has her attention fully focused on getting her architecture degree and raising her son. Love visits again, this time dressed up as a sharp police officer who wants her to help him nail the bad guys. This is Ama's second chance at finding true love.
Download or read book OFF THE WALL Prison Art Humor written by Jonathan G. Rundy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to show the world that rehabilitation of criminals is a reality and not just a dream. Since most are in prison for property crimes, which stem from living in poverty, it just did not seem smart to lock them up a few years and then kick them out just as poor as they went in. Off The Wall will enable me to hire convicts by buying their art and prose. It will be therapy for some and more money for most. At least they will have a fighting chance. What do they have now? Please note that some of this stuff is gross, weird, unusual, and bizarre. Profanity! This is a combination of humor and expose/opinions. Something for everybody. But not for those who are easily offended or grossed out. Very ingenious stuff, though. A good read! See preview.
Download or read book Funny Dirty Things Prisoners Do written by Leng Hang and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what kind of funny things happen in prison? Prison can be a very scary place, full of intimidating prisoners. The author, Leng Mua Hang, spent 21+ years in prison and reveals the unseen, funny side of prison like no other book has. His storytelling will make you feel as if you were there watching the funny, and sometimes dirty, things occurring. Funny, Dirty Things Prisoners Do is so funny, even prisoners, including ones who hate reading, cannot wait to buy it and read. People who know the author personally knows that the author has a wicked sense of humor. Immediately upon hearing that the author wrote a funny book, they want to know where and how they can buy it. This is the book that makes every intimidating prisoner laugh and smile. Want to read a book that will make you laugh throughout the book and that you will never forget? Funny, Dirty Things Prisoners Do is so funny, you will not forget it for the rest of your life. Why? It will have you laughing and turning the pages non-stop till the end. By the end, you will want to share the book to give loved ones the same joyous feelings of how it made you laughed and smiled. These hilarious stories have been tested on prisoners, friends, and family successfully. All those who have been lucky enough to hear the funny stories have laughed hysterically. Now, you and the world will also be lucky enough to share in the big smiles and laughter. We dare to say this is one of the funniest books in America. If you want to make someone smile big, have them read this book!
Download or read book A Prisoner s Guide to Humor written by Frank Feldman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prisoner's Guide to Humor is an unusual book of jokes intended to bring humor into a setting of endless boredom. A few years ago comedy suddenly became quite the rage at Rahway Prison in New Jersey. It started out as a fad that swept through the house. Originally joke tellers started trading jokes in the chow hall. After awhile they were asked to tell their jokes loudly enough for everyone to hear. Soon they were using the mike and speakers already set up for daily announcements. It's now a major part of prison life at Rahway. Inmates devote much of their free time to comedy. Some have become in-house celebrities for their stand-up routines or for finding hilarious gems to share. Being a "comedian" at Rahway is as important as being a "jailhouse lawyer" (a prisoner who has a good understanding of the legal system and advises other inmates). Our "seasoned comedians" decided to publish a volume or two of the Rahway Prison Comedy Project's 'Guides to Humor' to share with all of you. Consider this gift a model that you can use in your own "Graybar Hotel." If you're a fish, or the rare CO who has a sense of humor or someone who's returned to the free world, or someone from the free world who wants to get a rare look at prison humor you might find this book a hilarious gem. (For readers from outside the Graybar Hotel, a 'fish' is a new prisoner, 'the free world' is the world outside of prison, a 'CO' is a correction officer, and our beloved 'Graybar Hotel' is prison). "The rough life you hear about mainly takes place because our brothers "inside" are living hopeless lives. Comedy has proven to be a healing force in our prison. We all love to laugh. We learn to expose our pain in "group therapy." Comedy expresses the opposite, the pleasure that we all have the capacity to feel.
Download or read book Coping Behavior and Adaptation in Prison Inmates written by Edward Zamble and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in creasingly restive within the confines of the laboratory, and spent a sab batical year in the equivalent of a clinical internship. I then spent some time as a part-time consultant in a local penitentiary. Most of my time in the institution was spent with inmates with a variety of problems, probably about 50 individuals over the course of a year. Although this was far fewer than a full-time psychologist in the system might encounter, it served as a quick cram course on problem prisoners and prisoner problems. Very quickly my stereotypes about convicts were shown to be virtually useless. I learned that the criminal classes included all levels of society, and that the behavior of prisoners was the same as that of other human beings in a difficult environment.
Download or read book The Jail written by John Irwin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class. In a forceful conclusion, Irwin addresses the issue of jail reform and the matter of social control demanded by society. Reissued more than twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Jonathon Simon, The Jail remains an extraordinary account of the role jails play in America’s crisis of mass incarceration.
Download or read book Mr Smith Goes to Prison written by Jeff Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A politician's humorous memoir of his year in federal prison, with a viable prescription for a more productive, cost-effective corrections system.
Download or read book Life In Prison written by Stanley "Tookie" Williams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams, the cofounder of the Crips gang and a nominee for both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, became an anti-gang crusader before he was executed in December 2005. In this work he debunked urban myths about prison life and challenged young people to choose the right path. Selected for the Young Adult Library Services Association's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list.
Download or read book The Mars Room written by Rachel Kushner and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).
