Download or read book Doing Time Together written by Megan Comfort and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America’s massive prison system, Comfort’s book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.

Download or read book Prince of Death written by W. M. Fawkes and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifted power over life and death, Lysandros has spent millennia in the underworld, listless and alone. The youngest child of Hades and Persephone, he's been sheltered from the threats in the world above.Theo Ward hasn't been so lucky. After watching his mother wither away, he'd do almost anything to have her back. When a messenger appears at the Banneker College of Magic and offers the young professor a chance to save her, Theo can't pass it up, even if it means going straight into the underworld and dragging her home. But Theo gets more than he bargained for when he crosses paths with the prince of Hades.Set against the king of Olympus, they must shed their past burdens and learn to trust in each other, so they can face down a storm that threatens to wipe the nation's capital off the map.

Download or read book Wall Shadows written by Frank Tannenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadow of Prison written by Helen Codd and published by Willan. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom. It explores current debates in relation to prisoners and their families, and introduces the reader to relevant theoretical approaches. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book incorporates perspectives drawn from criminology, sociology, social work and law. The book includes: a current exploration of key aspects of the consequences of imprisonment for prisoners and their families an assessment of the role of current prison policies and practices in promoting and maintaining family relationships a summary of the current law in relation to prisoners and their families, with reference to the relevant legislation and recent case law.

Download or read book Shadow s Prisoners written by Billie M. Spaight and published by J.Paddy Spaight. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shadow’s Prisoners a cascade of death sweeps the town where fifteen year-old Peter Livingston lives in an old funeral home. After he discovers a horrific and unexplained fact about what the family business is all about, he enlists the aid of a doctor, a teacher, his uncle, and a soon-to-retire FBI agent to find out what is killing the town's pets and children. The secret, known to Peter's father, a prison warden, and a strange bird, involves reviving the dead and trying to send them through an old Underground Railroad tunnel back to jail - all of which doesn't work out as planned.

Download or read book The Shadow System written by Sylvia A. Harvey and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up. In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky, where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women, many of whom are white, one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi, a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close. Through these stories, Harvey reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families -- from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to astronomical charges for brief phone calls. The Shadow System is an eye-opening account of the way incarceration has impacted generations of American families; it delivers a galvanizing clarion call to fix this broken system.

Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by Polly Braden and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of people with learning disabilities and/or autism who are in the criminal justice system is often told in figures. It is estimated that around 7% of adults locked up in prisons have a learning disability, compared to around 2% of the general population; they are seven times more likely to come into contact with the police; and they account for just under a third of young people in custody. Out of the Shadows offers a very different view: the human cost of locking up people with learning disabilities and/or autism. Polly Braden's intimate and powerful photographs, seven in-depth stories written by Sally Williams and three first-hand accounts provide a valuable insight into how they ended up in prison and what happened to them.

Download or read book The Allegory of the Cave written by Plato and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Books VII and VIII (531d–534e). Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.

Download or read book Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons written by Homer Baxter Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bars and Shadows written by Ralph Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons written by Homer Baxter Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potential for religious radicalization of prison inmates in the United States poses a threat of unknown magnitude to the national security of the U.S. Prisons have long been places where extremist ideology and calls to violence could find a willing ear, and conditions are often conductive to radicalization. With the world's largest prison population and highest incarceration rate, America faces what could be a potential spread of terrorist recruiting within the prison system. The process of radicalization amongst incarcerated Muslims is poorly understood.

Download or read book Prison Shadows written by Kathryn Den Houter and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience 1864 5 written by Homer B Sprague and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This narrative of prison life differs from all others that I have seen, in that it is careful to put the best possible construction upon the treatment of Union prisoners by the Confederates, and to state and emphasize kindnesses and courtesies received by us from them. For the accuracy of the facts stated I am indebted to a diary kept from day to day during the whole of my imprisonment, and to the best obtainable records. The exact language of conversations cannot of course always be remembered, but I aim always to give correctly the substance. I am aware that the opinions I express in regard to Sheridan's strategy at the Battle of Winchester are not those generally entertained. But I give reasons. His own account of the battle is sadly imperfect. To capture but five guns and nine battle flags at a cost of four thousand six hundred and eighty killed and wounded, and leave almost the entire rebel army in shape to fight two great battles within a month, was not the programme he had planned. Early said "Sheridan should have been cashiered." I shall be blamed more for venturing to question Lincoln's policy of subjugation. He had proclaimed with great power and in the most unmistakable language in Congress that "any portion of any people had a perfect right to throw off their old government and establish a new one." But now, instead of standing strictly on the defensive, or attempting by diplomacy to settle the conflict which had become virtually international, he entered upon a war of conquest. I do not blame him for refusing to exchange prisoners, nor President Davis for allowing them to starve and freeze. Both were right, if war is right. It was expedient that thirty, fifty, or a hundred thousand of us should perish, or be rendered physically incapable of bearing arms again. The "deep damnation of the taking off" was due not to individual depravity but to military necessity." H.B.S

Download or read book The Prisoner of Heaven written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real. . . .An enthralling read and a must-have for your library. Zafón focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn’t let go.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer Internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives.

Download or read book After Prison written by David J. Harding and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest of any developed nation, with a prison population of approximately 2.3 million in 2016. Over 700,000 prisoners are released each year, and most face significant educational, economic, and social disadvantages. In After Prison, sociologist David Harding and criminologist Heather Harris provide a comprehensive account of young men’s experiences of reentry and reintegration in the era of mass incarceration. They focus on the unique challenges faced by 1,300 black and white youth aged 18 to 25 who were released from Michigan prisons in 2003, investigating the lives of those who achieved some measure of success after leaving prison as well as those who struggled with the challenges of creating new lives for themselves. The transition to young adulthood typically includes school completion, full-time employment, leaving the childhood home, marriage, and childbearing, events that are disrupted by incarceration. While one quarter of the young men who participated in the study successfully transitioned into adulthood—achieving employment and residential independence and avoiding arrest and incarceration—the same number of young men remained deeply involved with the criminal justice system, spending on average four out of the seven years after their initial release re-incarcerated. Not surprisingly, whites are more likely to experience success after prison. The authors attribute this racial disparity to the increased stigma of criminal records for blacks, racial discrimination, and differing levels of social network support that connect whites to higher quality jobs. Black men earn less than white men, are more concentrated in industries characterized by low wages and job insecurity, and are less likely to remain employed once they have a job. The authors demonstrate that families, social networks, neighborhoods, and labor market, educational, and criminal justice institutions can have a profound impact on young people’s lives. Their research indicates that residential stability is key to the transition to adulthood. Harding and Harris make the case for helping families, municipalities, and non-profit organizations provide formerly incarcerated young people access to long-term supportive housing and public housing. A remarkably large number of men in this study eventually enrolled in college, reflecting the growing recognition of college as a gateway to living wage work. But the young men in the study spent only brief spells in college, and the majority failed to earn degrees. They were most likely to enroll in community colleges, trade schools, and for-profit institutions, suggesting that interventions focused on these kinds of schools are more likely to be effective. The authors suggest that, in addition to helping students find employment, educational institutions can aid reentry efforts for the formerly incarcerated by providing supports like childcare and paid apprenticeships. After Prison offers a set of targeted policy interventions to improve these young people’s chances: lifting restrictions on federal financial aid for education, encouraging criminal record sealing and expungement, and reducing the use of incarceration in response to technical parole violations. This book will be an important contribution to the fields of scholarly work on the criminal justice system and disconnected youth.

Download or read book Whispers in the Shadows written by Magnum Tenebrosum and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whispers in the Shadows: The Prisoner's Descent" is a gripping tale of injustice, intrigue, and the battle between one man's quest for truth and the ominous forces conspiring against him. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn into the life of a man who has been wrongfully accused of a grave crime and sentenced to prison. The protagonist's journey is one of resilience and determination as he navigates the harsh realities of life behind bars. However, his predicament takes a darker turn when he stumbles upon unsettling secrets within the prison's walls. What he initially dismisses as mere rumors soon reveal themselves to be the workings of an ancient cult, hidden among the prison staff and guards. Driven by a desire for justice and the need to clear his name, our protagonist delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding the cult. As he investigates, he uncovers a web of dark rituals, clandestine meetings, and a plot that threatens not only his own life but the very foundations of the prison itself. Throughout the story, tension mounts as the protagonist races against time to expose the cult's nefarious intentions. He forms unlikely alliances with fellow inmates and even some sympathetic prison staff members. However, the cult's influence runs deep, and he must tread carefully to avoid drawing attention to his investigations. As the climax approaches, our hero faces the grim reality that his pursuit of truth may come at a great cost. The cult's grip tightens, and the odds of success grow slimmer. The story culminates in a thrilling showdown between the protagonist and the cult, with the fate of not only the wrongly accused man but also the prison itself hanging in the balance. "Whispers in the Shadows: The Prisoner's Descent" is a tale of suspense, betrayal, and the enduring power of the human spirit. It explores themes of justice, redemption, and the lengths one will go to in the face of overwhelming adversity. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they follow the protagonist's journey through the darkness, hoping against hope that he can unravel the secrets of the cult before it's too late.