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 Surviving and Thriving in Prison written by E. Dantes and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Me Help You Survive & Thrive Five years ago, I started to panic. I was three months away from standing in front of a judge in federal court to be sentenced. I was in a panic because it was quite clear - I was going to prison. What would happen to me behind those prison walls? Would I survive?It wasn't until I was inside prison that I realized how important the information in this book would be to men and women about to enter the Federal Bureau of Prisons. I spent five years in federal prison, and following the advice in this book; I was not only able to survive, but thrive by making productive use of my time. So much so that it flew by! What you can expect to learn from this book: Part 1: Beginnings Things you can do right now, before coming to prison, to prepare yourself Important things you need to do in the first 24 hours What the living conditions are like Important points about prison etiquette Settling in Part 2: Doing Time Walk through a typical day in the B.O.P. The different options you have available to you for spending your time constructively Meals, communication, and the inside economy Part 3: Transitions Preparing yourself to be released from prison Your halfway house options The halfway house accountability system Dealing with your criminal background when searching for a job Part 4: Resources You are provided with a number of resources for all three phases of your incarceration: pre-trial, prison, and halfway house plus bonus chapter for those individuals who are entering prison as a Sex Offender. I wrote this book because I wanted it to be an important resource to help quell your fears, ease your anxiety, and give you the information I wish I had five years ago. Don't wait until you are inside to acquire this knowledge - learn it now! Check Out What Others Are Saying... "Having served time in a low security Federal prison, this book is as accurate as it gets.""Very useful and direct. Very Worthwhile.""Very well written. Straightforward and useful.""Written in clear, concise language this book is a "must have" for all first time inmates of the Federal prison system."Scroll up and BUY NOW!
Download or read book Prison A Survival Guide written by Carl Cattermole and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside. Contains: Blood – but not as much as you might imagine Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap Tears – because prison has created a mental health crisis Humanity – and how to stop the institution destroying it Featuring contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby. ‘Essential reading’ Will Self ‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’ Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London ‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’ Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’
Download or read book How to Survive Prison written by Steven Fazekas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on first-hand personal experiences; nevertheless it is not about guilt or innocence. It is a handbook; guidance for those Americans, who may one day have to go to prison. This is a directory to the idiosyncrasies of the American ‘Justice Industry’ and to inmates, guards, lawyers, judges, prosecutors and incarceration facilities within it. By and large the workings of this self-perpetuating ‘industry’ are little known to the general public. Here is a detailed guide for all those unfortunate Americans who one day may fall into the hands of this relentless ‘industry’. It is a known fact that the United States has the highest number of incarcerated people in the world, hence mathematically speaking any American, including you the reader could easily be part of this sad statistics. By reading about events, persons and places described in this book, you the reader will be prepared (somewhat) to face this special section of society that (so far) had been locked away from you and the American public. ***** “There are two kinds of people my friends: The one who gets caught and the one yet to be caught..... every son of a bitch out there is guilty of something, including the judge and the jury who convicted me.” A quote from Orlando – a federal inmate serving a life sentence.
Download or read book Behind Bars written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best ways to avoid being beaten, sexually abused, or getting killed; US origin.
Download or read book Living in Prison written by Hans Toch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the relationship that links environments to the persons who must live and work in them. By presenting the maximum security prison as a living environment, and illustrating the personal impact prisons have on individual inmates, Hans Toch, who is a psychologist with many years of research experience in "real life" settings, shows us how men adapt to stressful stimuli. He also provides a blueprint for reform--a practical solution to the problem of making prisons, and other settings, more effective and more humane.
Download or read book How to survive prison for the first time inmate written by William Mitchell and published by william mitchell. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book has almost 17 years of prison time. His convictions include, armed robberies, burglaries, assaults, drugs, and various misdemeanors.His first incarceration was at 14 years old, he was tried and convicted as an adult at 17 years. He learned how to survive, and then much later, how to grow. His pain and agony cost him a lot of his life and many relationships. He would like others to gain from the things he has learned, so as to save themselves the same fate.He is most interested in first time inmates, his experience can be their redemption.Bill is also a consultant for first time inmates. For an appointment call 727-475-8830
Download or read book Federal Prison Handbook written by Christopher Zoukis and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to surviving incarceration in a federal prison. Federal Prison Handbook teaches individuals facing incarceration, prisoners who are already inside, and their friends and family everything they need to know to protect themselves and their rights. The thorough information has been compiled by an advocate currently serving time at a federal prison. His insider's view of this unknown world guides inmates through the mental stresses of confinement. Equally as important, he keeps readers physically safe by explaining how to avoid the near-constant conflicts found inside federal prisons. In detailed chapters broken down by topical areas, readers discover: * What to expect during admissions and how to greet cellmates for the first time. * How to communicate with the outside world through telephones, computers, and mail. * What types of items can be purchased from the official commissary and the underground economy. * The best ways to avoid fights, and the options that provide the greatest protection if a fight cannot be avoided. * The knowledge required to avoid scams, schemes, theft, and other problems. * What to do about sexual harassment or assault. * The types of jobs available and their pay grades. * Medical and psychological services. * Religious activities and services. * Entertainment, recreation, and keeping fit. * And much more. Importantly, this text provides detailed instructions on how prisoners can protect their rights. The author is a college-educated prisoner who has fought extensively to preserve his rights and the rights of other prisoners. Incarceration can be cruel for prisoners and their loved ones. Know what to expect and make the best of this time by staying safe, remaining safe, and building a life behind bars.
Download or read book Conviviality and Survival written by Sacha Darke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on duty. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as our established theories on prison life might predict. This monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in the absence of guards. More specifically, the means by which prison security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most prisoners to better survive.
Download or read book Homeward written by Bruce Western and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release from prison. Drawing from in-depth interviews with over one hundred individuals, he describes the lives of the formerly incarcerated and demonstrates how poverty, racial inequality, and failures of social support trap many in a cycle of vulnerability despite their efforts to rejoin society. Western and his research team conducted comprehensive interviews with men and women released from the Massachusetts state prison system who returned to neighborhoods around Boston. Western finds that for most, leaving prison is associated with acute material hardship. In the first year after prison, most respondents could not afford their own housing and relied on family support and government programs, with half living in deep poverty. Many struggled with chronic pain, mental illnesses, or addiction—the most important predictor of recidivism. Most respondents were also unemployed. Some older white men found union jobs in the construction industry through their social networks, but many others, particularly those who were black or Latino, were unable to obtain full-time work due to few social connections to good jobs, discrimination, and lack of credentials. Violence was common in their lives, and often preceded their incarceration. In contrast to the stereotype of tough criminals preying upon helpless citizens, Western shows that many former prisoners were themselves subject to lifetimes of violence and abuse and encountered more violence after leaving prison, blurring the line between victims and perpetrators. Western concludes that boosting the social integration of former prisoners is key to both ameliorating deep disadvantage and strengthening public safety. He advocates policies that increase assistance to those in their first year after prison, including guaranteed housing and health care, drug treatment, and transitional employment. By foregrounding the stories of people struggling against the odds to exit the criminal justice system, Homeward shows how overhauling the process of prisoner reentry and rethinking the foundations of justice policy could address the harms of mass incarceration.
Download or read book How to Survive Prison for the First Time Inmate written by William Mitchell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book has almost 17 years of actual time behind bars.His first incarceration was at 14 years old. By the time he was 17 he had done some very dangerous crimes so the state waived jurisdiction and he ended up being the only 11th grader on the block.His experience will help you better understand your own situation.If you're going to prison this book is a must read.Mr. Mitchell also has a consulting service for first time inmates.For an appointment go to inmateprep.com
Download or read book Life Without Parole written by Victor Hassine and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the Grand Trunk Corporation from its inception in 1971 through 1992, drawing on corporate records, oral histories, and archival material. Offers insight into deregulation, free trade, repositioning of basic industry, and the realities of the new economic order, and examines expectations for Grand Trunk Western, Central Vermont, and Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Prison Survival Guide written by Russel Ferguson and published by RoseDog Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison Survival Guide By Russel Ferguson Are you or someone you know going to jail or prison in the future or are already incarcerated? If so, Prison Survival Guide is for you. In it, Russel Ferguson debunks several rumors about living in prison, and sheds light on many of the subjects that scare people about going. Simultaneously, he teaches you the proper mindset and code of personal conduct necessary to survive a period of incarceration. About the Author Russel Ferguson is currently incarcerated in Mercer, Pennsylvania, serving time on a two to four year sentence. This is his first book. When he gets out of prison, he plans to continue writing, to make music, and to one day have his own farm.
Download or read book Razor Wire Dharma written by Calvin Malone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Razor-Wire Dharma is an eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how one man found Buddhism—and real, transformative meaning for his life—despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.
Download or read book After the Gavel written by Rodney Sloan Doggett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Gavel is an accurate and detailed description of everything a person should know before going to prison and doing time in prison. The book contains 74 different sections covering every area of prison life. Reading this book will not only help you survive prison but it will also show you how to live better in any prison. Prison is a very difficult place to live and the lesson are hard on someone who is inexperienced or na�ve about the ways of prison. It can be a terrifying ordeal but reading this book and following the advice can make your prison time much less stressful and less painful. It doesn't matter whether you are going to federal or state prison the information in this book will guide you through the most difficult situations. After the Gravel contains truly useful, on point information designed specifically to improve your transition from being free to living in prison. The more information you have on what to expect, how to act and what you should do to avoid conflict will greatly decrease your stress level during the transition. This book will give you all that information. After the Gravel will be a huge benefit to those who are currently incarcerated because it gives them information which takes years to gain through experience. The author has included information which was acquired over his seventeen years in the prison system. The person who is already in prison might know the rules but the information in this book goes well beyond "the rules". This book will help guide the prisoner toward preparing for release from prison. To most prisoners getting out of prison is just as stressful as going to prison, especially those who have not prepared for their release from prison. One of the reasons After the Gavel was written is to help the prisoner prepare for their release and transition back into society. Be careful who gives you advice on surviving prison. There are a lot of people who write "prison survival" books who only spent six to twenty four months in some prison camp. Those people do not know enough about how to survive prison to be credible. They do not understand the prisoners, guards or the prison system itself. If you want advice you should at least get it from someone with many years of experience in several different prisons and different prison security levels. The people you will be locked up with will come from all the different prisons and security levels. Dealing with all of those people is the reasons you need good advice from someone who knows what he is talking about.When you go to prison you will have to deal with idiots, bullies, con men and people you should never trust. This book tells you how to identify and deal with the different types of prisoners and guards you will interact with everyday you're in prison. The information will show you how to avoid problems and conflicts. Not knowing how to deal with the different people can result in an immediate confrontation. Prison rules are not normal rules of society. The information in this book will guide you through or around all of these situations.By reading and following the advice in After the Gavel you will avoid all of the usual pitfalls, conflicts and embarrassing situations the inexperienced prisoner finds themselves in. The information will make your prison time less stressful. You will learn how to live as well as you can in prison. One of the most important things the advice will do, if you follow it, is to prepared you for release from prison.Just remember that whichever prison survival book you decide to buy should be written by someone who has spent many (more than 10) years in prison. Don't waste your money on the ones written by people who do not have the experience. Even if you go to a "camp" you will be dealing with other prisoners who have been moved down from prisons with much higher security levels. Not knowing how to interact with these prisoners will cause you major problems. Good luck to you.
Download or read book Prison Guide written by Angelo Pisano and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of surviving prison have remained unwritten - until now. Angelo Pisano, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. prison system, is breaking the silence with this guide on how to navigate a world behind bars. With a focus on getting home as soon as possible, Pisano prepares soon-to-be inmates for confinement, whether their sentences will be served in county jails or in maximum security prisons. The advice for so-called "new Jacks" covers all types of scenarios, from fights to the complex rules that govern borrowing and lending to the best practices at the gambling table. By teaching the newly convicted about the pecking order and how to stay out of trouble with correctional officers and inmates alike, Pisano aims to get his readers out of jail as early as the criminal justice system will allow. Instead of feeling helpless, Pisano's readers will come away from the book feeling more in control. That's because, as Pisano writes, being confined to jail doesn't mean being confined to bad choices. Instead, he provides his readers with workable advice on how to take advantage of the solitude and freedom from distraction to improve character, intellect and chances for future success. By reading this book, the newly convicted just might be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
Download or read book The Hot House written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning account of life behind bars at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where the nation’s hardest criminals do hard time. “A page-turner, as compelling and evocative as the finest novel. The best book on prison I’ve ever read.”—Jonathan Kellerman The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the “star” players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent almost thirty of his forty-two years behind bars; indomitable Warden Robert Matthews, who put his shoulder against his prison’s grim reality; Thomas Silverstein, a sociopath confined in “no human contact” status since 1983; “tough cop” guard Eddie Geouge, the only officer in the penitentiary with the authority to sentence an inmate to “the Hole”; and William Post, a bank robber with a criminal record going back to when he was eight years old—and known as the “Catman” for his devoted care of the cats who live inside the prison walls. Pete Earley, celebrated reporter and author of Family of Spies, all but lived for nearly two years inside the primordial world of Leavenworth, where he conducted hundreds of interviews. Out of this unique, extraordinary access comes the riveting story of what life is actually like in the oldest maximum-security prison in the country. Praise for The Hot House “Reporting at its very finest.”—Los Angeles Times “The book is a large act of courage, its subject an important one, and . . . Earley does it justice.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] riveting, fiercely unsentimental book . . . To [Earley’s] credit, he does not romanticize the keepers or the criminals. His cool and concise prose style serves him well. . . . This is a gutsy book.”—Chicago Tribune “Harrowing . . . an exceptional work of journalism.”—Detroit Free Press “If you’re going to read any book about prison, The Hot House is the one. . . . It is the most realistic, unbuffed account of prison anywhere in print.”—Kansas City Star “A superb piece of reporting.”—Tom Clancy
