Download or read book Prison Pyramid written by Dax Xenos and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An all-too-believable vision of where prison privatization is headed in the United States. A wake-up call." - Andrew Shaffer, New York Times best-selling author of Hope Never Dies . "An incredible work of fiction. Nothing like it since Phillip K. Dick." - Jack DuArte, international best-selling author of Spitfire. "Brilliantly original. High art world building. Irreverent, intelligent and delightful." - Austin Teutsch, best-selling author of King George. Prison Pyramid: (356 pages) is a high-concept techno-thriller set in a futuristic prison in the vein of Philip K. Dick, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris, and Jules Verne. When conspiracy theorist Axel Storm is wrongly convicted, he's sent to The Pyramid - a maximum-security correctional facility that stands a mile high and a mile across - home to two million felons. At first, the prison seems like a self-sustaining utopia, with subterranean fish farms, aquaculture and waste treatment levels. Recidivism rates are surprisingly low. Are inmates really being rehabilitated? Storm soon discovers the mother of all conspiracies: The Pyramid is repurposing convicts to serve the Quackenbush Corporation, a world leader in corporate and industrial security. The trouble is, Storm's notoriety makes him both a prize catch and a dangerous whistle-blower. Can he survive The Pyramid long enough to reveal its secrets to the world?
Download or read book Smart Prisons written by Peiliang Sun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to apply the new generation of information technology to the research and practice of prison management, promote the reform of prison security, fair law enforcement, educational correction and other management modes brought about by strengthening the police with science and technology, deepen the practice of administering prison according to law, and promote the modernization of prison governance system and governance capacity. This book is suitable for the personnel engaged in the management and informatization construction of prisons, drug rehabilitation centers, detention houses, and community correction institutions as professional book and is also suitable as the teaching, training, and reference book of criminal execution, prison management, community correction, judicial information technology, prison information technology, and other majors in the colledge of criminal justice.
Download or read book The American Prison written by Francis T. Cullen and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer sustainable. At this unique moment in the history of corrections, the opportunity has emerged to discuss in meaningful ways how best to shape efforts to control crime and to intervene effectively with offenders. This breakthrough book brings together established correctional scholars to imagine what this prison future might entail. Each scholar uses his or her expertise to craft—in an accessible way for students to read—a blueprint for how to create a new penology along a particular theme. For example, one contributor writes about how to use existing research expertise to create a prison that is therapeutic and another provides insight on how to create a "feminist" prison. In the final chapter the editors pull together the "lessons learned" in a cohesive, comprehensive essay.
Download or read book Prison Violence written by Kimmett Edgar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts. Yet the crimes perpetrated by prisoners on other prisoners have attracted little interest, and criminological research has contributed little to an understanding of situations in which violence arises in penal institutions. This book seeks to remedy this, and to address and answer a number of key questions: how do features of the prison social setting shape conflicts?; what social norms guide the decision to use violence?; what are the personal and social consequences of spending months or years in places where distrust and anxiety are normal?; how do staff respond to the dangers that are part of daily life in many prisons?; is it possible to identify factors associated with risk and resilience?; and what methods of handling conflicts do prisoners use that could prevent violence? Prison Violence adopts a distinctive approach to answering these questions, and is based on extensive research, including interviews with both victims and perpetrators of prison violence; it pioneers a conflict-centred approach, seeking to understand the pathways into and out of situations where there is potential for violence, focusing on interpersonal and institutional dynamics rather than on individual psychological factors.
Download or read book Journeying with God written by Austin Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Daniel Beer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.
Download or read book The Nile written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nile notes for travellers in Egypt written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cook s Handbook for Egypt and the S d n written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mummy written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of funerary procedures in ancient Egypt, covering mummification, burial practices, ritual texts, tombs and coffins, and other topics, and including background on Egyptian history and religion, a chart of the hieroglyphic alphabet, and other resources.
Download or read book The Nile written by Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cook s Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian S d n written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budge s Egypt written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nile monuments, Alexandria, Cairo, Heliopolis, Suez, Cleopatra's Needle, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, and much more.
Download or read book A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 1909 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book After Life Imprisonment written by Marieke Liem and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison? In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of “lifers” upon release. Through interviews with over sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were re-incarcerated. The interviews reveal prisoners’ reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships upon release. Liem explores the increase in handing out of life sentences, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment, ultimately unpacking public policy and discourse surrounding long-term incarceration. A profound criminological examination, After Life Imprisonment reveals the untold, lived experiences of prisoners before and after their life sentences.
Download or read book Notorious Prisons written by Scott Christianson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the world's most feared institutions, from ancient and medieval up to the Bangkok Hilton and Abu Ghraib.
Download or read book A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
