Download or read book A Prison Without Walls written by Sarah Badcock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prison Without Walls? presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in eastern Siberia during the very last years of the Tsarist regime, from the 1905 revolution to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917. This was an extraordinary period in Siberia's history as a place of punishment. There was an unprecedented rise of Siberia's penal use in this fifteen-year window, and a dramatic increase in the number of exiles punished for political offences. This work focuses on the region of Eastern Siberia, taking the regions of Irkutsk and Yakutsk in north-eastern Siberia as its focal points. Siberian exile was the antithesis of Foucault's modern prison. The State did not observe, monitor, and control its exiles closely; often not even knowing where the exiles were. Exiles were free to govern their daily lives; free of fences and free from close observation and supervision, but despite these freedoms, Siberian exile represented one of Russia's most feared punishments. In this volume, Sarah Badcock seeks to humanise the individuals who made up the mass of exiles, and the men, women, and children who followed them voluntarily into exile. A Prison Without Walls? is structured in a broad narrative arc that moves from travel to exile, life and communities in exile, work and escape, and finally illness in exile. The book gives a personal, human, empathetic insight into what exilic experience entailed, and allows us to comprehend why eastern Siberia was regarded as a terrible punishment, despite its apparent freedoms.
Download or read book Bamboo Promise written by Vicheara Houn and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up as the sheltered and privileged only child of a wealthy, prominent Cambodian family. In her young life, she was oblivious of the impoverished lives of the underclass in Cambodia, and of the politics and world events that were sweeping her and her country toward one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. The rich Cambodian culture and all the competing Western influences are vividly displayed in her descriptions of her life with her father as he tries to mold her into a highly educated and independent woman who still exemplifies all the virtues of the idealized, traditional Cambodian woman. The political tides that enveloped Southeast Asia in the 1970s began to become real to Vicheara when her fathers responsibilities in the Lon Nol government caused him to personally negotiate with a group of Khmer Rouge insurgents, including inviting them to a dinner at his home. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot - the monstrous leader of the communist guerrilla organization transformed Cambodia, the country of his birth, into a Prison Without Walls. This was one week before the fall of Saigon, Vietnam. This extreme form of radical communism eliminated religion, culture, currency, personal property, hospitals, schools, the banking system, and every other vestige of modern urban life. They committed class genocide against Cambodians educated urban citizens through starvation, execution, and forced labor. Nearly half the population of Cambodia died in the four years that followed, many in the Killing Fields, and as Toul Sleng Prison, the slaughterhouse in Phnom-Penh. When Vicheara, near death from starvation, staggered out of the Pol Pot Time in 1979, she was alone, an orphan, a stranger in a world forever changed. The Cambodia of her childhood was gone as were most of her family and friends. Her journey through horror, privation and humiliation finally led her to the United States in 1984.
Download or read book Moving Picture World and View Photographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Time of Scandal written by Rosemary Stevens and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the founding director of the US Veterans Bureau a criminal—or a scapegoat? In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as founding director. Forbes lasted in the position for only eighteen months before stepping down under a cloud of criticism and suspicion. In 1926—after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by rigging government contracts—he was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Although he was known in his day as a drunken womanizer, and as a corrupt, betraying toady of a weak, blind-sided president, the question persists: was Forbes a criminal or a scapegoat? Historian Rosemary Stevens tells Forbes’s story anew, drawing on previously untapped records to reveal his role in America’s initial and ongoing commitment to veterans. She explores how Forbes’s rise and fall in Washington illuminates President Harding’s efforts to bring business efficiency to government. She also examines the Veterans Bureau scandal in the context of class, professionalism, ethics, and etiquette in a rapidly changing world. Most significantly, Stevens proposes a fascinating revisionist view of both Forbes and Harding—and raises questions about not only the validity but the source of their respective reputations. They did not defraud the government of billions of dollars, Stevens convincingly documents, and do not deserve the reputation they have carried for a hundred years. Packed with vibrant characters—conniving friends, FBI agents, and rival politicians split by sectional and ideological interests as well as gamblers, revelers, and wronged wives—A Time of Scandal will appeal to anyone interested in political gossip, presidential politics, the “Ohio Gang,” and the 1920s.
Download or read book Within Prison Walls written by Thomas Mott Osborne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Redeeming a Prison Society written by Amy Levad and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups, all of which is within a larger social justice context. Catholics and Protestants have largely failed to offer vital theological responses. Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.
Download or read book Walls and Bars written by Eugene Victor Debs and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.
Download or read book American Purgatory written by Benjamin D. Weber and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian “American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this country.” —Clint Smith, bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America In this explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe. A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how “prison imperialism”—the deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject populations—is written into our national DNA, extending through to our modern era of mass incarceration. Weber also uncovers a surprisingly rich history of prison resistance, from the Seminole Chief Osceola to Assata Shakur—one that invites us to rethink the scope of America’s long freedom struggle. Weber’s brilliantly documented text is supplemented by original maps highlighting the global geography of prison imperialism, as well as illustrations of key figures in this history by the celebrated artist Ayo Scott. For readers of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, here is a bold new effort to tell the full story of prisons and incarceration—at home and abroad—as well as a powerful future vision of a world without prisons.
Download or read book Document Retrieval Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the New York State Commission of Correction written by New York (State). State Commission of Correction and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tables.
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Prison written by Norval Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries.
Download or read book Children s Rights and Power written by Mary John and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary John considers how children learn about power. She compares the situation of children to that of other powerless minority groups, arguing that children are rarely included in debates on freedom and economy.
Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections written by Joan Petersilia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook surveys American sentencing and corrections from global and historical views, from theoretical and policy perspectives, and with attention to a number of problem-specific issues.
Download or read book The Lord Will Hear written by and published by Walter Kambulow. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stumbling Over A Quarter To Pick Up A Penny written by Hayward C. Townsend Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stumbling Over A Quarter To Pick Up A Penny: Understanding Your Life's Spiritual Periods is a book that teaches you how to remain in God's Power while dealing with life's everyday challenges. "Stumbling Over A Quarter To Pick Up A Penny" is a metaphor for how you deal inappropriately with your life's challenges---whether they are related to relationships, illicit behavior, wealth, health or spiritual peace of mind. The Six Spiritual Periods: Probation, Preparation, Conquest, Power, Decline, and Servitude are the different stages of life that you find yourself in while dealing with those challenges. Oftentimes you are not in God's Power, where you want to be, but in one of the other five. To get to God's Power or to remain in it, you need to understand the principles of the Six Spiritual Periods that are contained in this book. The stories in this book are built around a recent awareness that God gave me of how to unlock the understanding of life's Six Spiritual Periods. They are an accumulation of my personal "stumbling" experiences blended together with Biblical stories and Scripture references that I use to reveal to you how important it is to have a correct understanding of which of the Six Spiritual Periods that you are currently living your life in. Written for individuals of all ages, the book takes less than four hours to read, but its unique insights can last a lifetime. So read the stories, complete the Determining Your Life's Spiritual Period Worksheet and then enjoy the personal happiness fostered by your new understanding of how God's Power works.
