Life In Prison Eight Hours At A Time
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Life In Prison Eight Hours At A Time
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Author : Robert Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Life In Prison Eight Hours At A Time written by Robert Reilly and has been published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
*Silver Medal, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Best New Voice* *Finalist, Memoir, 2015 Maine Literary Award* In this gripping nonfiction account, Robert Reilly provides a look inside America’s prison system unlike any other, and the way that it affects not only the prisoners themselves but also the corrections officers and their families. After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair. The specter of success in the music business had become a monster about to ruin his family life. Something had to change, or something was going to break beyond repair. A chance conversation with a neighbor led him to apply, somewhat half-heartedly, for a job at the county prison. Although he hated the thought of a “real job,” a regular salary of $40,000 with benefits, and paid time off seemed like a small fortune. “Amazingly, I somehow got hired. So, in an effort to do the right thing and put my family first, I left the madness of the music business and entered the insanity of the U.S. prison system.” Robert Reilly served a seven-year term as a prison guard in Pennsylvania and Maine. Entering America’s industrial prison system in search of a way to support his young family, the struggling musician found himself in a looking-glass world where, often, only the uniforms distinguished guards from prisoners. Life in Prison chronicles the horrors of a place where justice is arbitrary, outcomes are preordained, and the private sector makes big money while the public looks away. This is Reilly’s story of doing time. To call the experience sobering would be the ultimate understatement: “As time crawls by, I become jealous of the inmates leaving the prison. I start to slip; I start to feel like I’m losing my faith. Any trace of innocence that I thought I still had starts to evaporate. I begin to feel trapped, imprisoned, locked in a dark heartbreaking world, just like an inmate.”
Life In Prison
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Author : R. J. Reilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Life In Prison written by R. J. Reilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Robert Reilly served a seven-year term as a prison guard in Pennsylvania and Maine. Entering America's industrial prison complex in search of a way to support his young family, the struggling musician found himself in a looking-glass world where, often, only the uniforms distinguished guards from prisoners. This is Reilly's story of doing time." --Page [4] cover.
A Grip Of Time
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Author : Lauren Kessler
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-25
A Grip Of Time written by Lauren Kessler and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Social Science categories.
“The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security prison while illuminating the benefits of the craft of writing. . . . compassionate.” —Publishers Weekly A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about—a maximum-security prison—and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers’ Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives. As they struggle with the weight of their guilt and wonder if they should hope for a future outside prison walls, Kessler struggles with the fiercely competing ideas of rehabilitation and punishment, forgiveness and blame that are at the heart of the American penal system. Gripping, intense, and heartfelt, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life shows what a lifetime with no hope of release looks like up-close. “Takes us on a compelling, intensely personal journey into the rarely glimpsed end point of our justice system . . . What dignity, meaning, and success these lifers achieve despite the system’s design.” —Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t “A keenly observed and deeply felt narrative . . . so original and so compelling . . . it wouldn’t let me go.” —Alex Kotlowitz, national bestselling author of An American Summer
Doing Time In The Garden
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Author : James Jiler
language : en
Publisher: New Village Press
Release Date : 2006-08-06
Doing Time In The Garden written by James Jiler and has been published by New Village Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-06 with Education categories.
The first and only comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs.
Doing Time
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Author : Bell Gale Chevigny
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Doing Time written by Bell Gale Chevigny and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Fiction categories.
A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing.
Solitary
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Author : Albert Woodfox
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2019-03-12
Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.
How To Love Inspire Your Man After Prison
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Author : Michael B. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Joint Fx Press
Release Date : 2003-11
How To Love Inspire Your Man After Prison written by Michael B. Jackson and has been published by Joint Fx Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with categories.
How to Love and Inspire Your Man After Prison is the first definitive guide for women in relationships with men involved in the Criminal Justice System. It is a potentially life-changing and life-saving book with powerful insights, practical advice and energizing inspiration. The hundreds of thousands of wives and partners of current, former, and future inmates; families, friends and loved ones of current, former, and future inmates; criminal justice professionals; and anyone interested in the corrections system and/or the betterment of society. all will find this book indispensable.
Life On The Outside
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Author : Jennifer Gonnerman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-02
Life On The Outside written by Jennifer Gonnerman and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chronicles the life of Elaine Bartlett, a woman who spent sixteen years in prison for selling cocaine, tracing her steps as she is released from prison and tries to reconstruct her life.
Prison Diaries
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Author : Denis MacShane
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-17
Prison Diaries written by Denis MacShane and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Two days before Christmas 2013, former MP Denis MacShane entered one of Europe's harshest prisons. Having pleaded guilty to false accounting at the Old Bailey, he had been sentenced to six months in jail. Upon arrival at Belmarsh Prison, his books and personal possessions were confiscated and he was locked in a solitary cell for up to twenty-three hours a day. Denis was the latest MP condemned to serve as an example in the wake of the expenses scandal. Written with scavenged pens and scraps of paper, this diary is a compelling account of his extraordinary experiences in Belmarsh and, later, Brixton. Recording the lives of his fellow prisoners, he discovers a humility and a willingness to admit mistakes that was conspicuously lacking in his former colleagues at the House of Commons. Woven into the narrative are thought-provoking reflections on a range of important topics, from the waning of public confidence in MPs - and the high-profile termination of his own political career - to the failings of the British judicial system. Above all, Prison Diaries reveals what life as a prisoner in Britain is really like, addressing issues such as rising inmate numbers, dehumanising conditions, high incarceration rates, lack of rehabilitation and an endemic political disinterest. This honest and fascinating diary is both a first-hand insight into the current prison system and a report on how it simply does not work.
Prison Town
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Author : Andrea R. Morrell
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2025-06
Prison Town written by Andrea R. Morrell and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06 with History categories.
Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town--with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure in March 2022, the Southport Correctional Facility. Hundreds of locals have worked at the prisons, the town plays host to visitors of the incarcerated, and local medical institutions provide treatment to prisoners. The prisons and Elmira are inseparable. In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates the converging and shifting fault lines of race and class through a portrait of a prison town undergoing deindustrialization as it chooses the path of prison expansion. In this ethnography, Morrell highlights the contradictions of prison work as work that allows a middle-class salary and lifestyle but trades in other forms of stigma. Guards, prisoners, prisoners' families, and meager amounts of money and care work travel through spaces of free and unfree via the porous borders between prison and town. As Morrell captures the rapid expansion of the carceral state into upstate New York from the perspective of a small city with two prisons, she demonstrates how the prison system's racialized, gendered, and classed dispossession has crossed its own porous borders into the city of Elmira.