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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, Seventh Edition
added by bethness on November 21, 2006 11:34 AM
What if our criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish - from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing? The...
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
added by maxwell on November 4, 2006 2:14 PM
The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned h...
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
added by stix on November 17, 2006 9:06 PM
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted...
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
added by john316 on November 12, 2006 8:40 PM
When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drug...
Heaven: A Prison Diary Volume 3 (A Prison Diary)
added by willie on November 19, 2006 5:59 AM
Jeffrey Archers final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from a medium security prison, HMP Wayland, to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includ...
Overcoming Prison and Addiction (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series.)
added by literary on November 23, 2006 10:44 PM
An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and "make it" in society...
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
added by alexis on November 12, 2006 6:01 AM
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted...
The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
added by jbritt on November 3, 2006 5:45 PM
For some writers, publication is an achievement; for Wei Jingsheng it is closer to a miracle. The letters Wei wrote during his first 15 years as a political prisoner in China are addressed to his f...
Who Moved My Soap? : The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison
added by bones on November 12, 2006 4:04 AM
Attention, CEOs: Finally, a book you don't have to cook! If you're a CEO who's just been caught, this is the book you won't want to be caught without. Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Survivi...
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
added by runningscared on November 4, 2006 10:27 PM
When seventeen-year-old T.J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drug...
