Prison Town
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Prison Town
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Author : Kevin C. Pyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Prison Town written by Kevin C. Pyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A lucid, informative, and digestible comic (illustrated graphic guide is probably more accurate) on the real costs (social, economic, community and personal) of what it means when a prison is built in a (typically poor, rural) town. There are more prisons in America than Wal-Marts. And there are more prisoners in America today than farmers. Kevin Payle and Craig Gilmore lay it all out.
Prison Town
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Author : Andrew Marantz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Prison Town written by Andrew Marantz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
The Big House In A Small Town
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Author : Eric J. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Big House In A Small Town written by Eric J. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Social Science categories.
This work is an in-depth, on-the-ground examination of how prisons impact rural communities, including a revealing study of two rural communities that have chosen prisons as an economic development strategy. A recent study by the Urban Institute estimates that one-third of all counties in the United States house a prison, and that our prison and jail population is now over 2.1 million. Another report indicates that more than 97 percent of all U.S. prisoners are eventually released, and communities are absorbing nearly 650,000 formerly incarcerated individuals each year. These figures are particularly alarming considering the fact that rural communities are using prisons as economic development vehicles without fully understanding the effects of these jails on the area. This book is the result of author Eric J. Williams' ground-level research about the effects of prisons upon two rural American communities that lobbied to host maximum security prisons. Through hundreds of interviews conducted while living in Florence, Colorado, and Beeville, Texas, Williams offers the perspective of local residents on all sides of the issue, as well as a social history told mainly from the standpoint of those who lobbied for the prisons.
Prison City
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Author : Ruth Massingill
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Prison City written by Ruth Massingill and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Prison City looks beneath the placid surface of Huntsville, Texas, execution capital of the world, and sheds light on controversial issues usually hidden behind penitentiary walls. The authors draw on a multitude of voices from the community surrounding the prison - from inmates and guards to neighboring residents and local politicians - to reflect on questions of crime and punishment, vengeance, and forgiveness. We see how the sophisticated communication techniques employed by inmates, information officers, and community leaders shape opinions in the small towns where prisons are a principal industry. The poignant, evocative stories that run throughout the book highlight the incarcerated population's increasing influence in the political, cultural, and economic landscape in the United States. Most of all, Prison City offers opportunities to understand why the Texas justice system has become a global metaphor for incarceration and capital punishment.
Life Beside Bars
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Author : Heath Pearson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-11-08
Life Beside Bars written by Heath Pearson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-08 with Social Science categories.
heath pearson examines the social life of a rural town in New Jersey that is home to five prisons and outlines how the residents negotiate the demands of a region that has always depended on human confinement for survival.
Prison Town
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Author : ANDREA R. MORRELL
language : en
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2025-05
Prison Town written by ANDREA R. MORRELL and has been published by University of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05 with History categories.
Summary Of The Proceedings Of The New City Prison Commission Of The City Of New York
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-15
Summary Of The Proceedings Of The New City Prison Commission Of The City Of New York written by Anonymous and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Prison Of Democracy
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Author : Sara M. Benson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
The Prison Of Democracy written by Sara M. Benson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Social Science categories.
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
The Prison Experience
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Author : Pieter Spierenburg
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Prison Experience written by Pieter Spierenburg and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
Though the prison is central to the penal system of most modern nations, many believe that imprisonment did not become a major judicial sanction until the nineteenth century. In this readable history, Pieter Spierenburg traces the evolution of the prison during the early modern period and illustrates the important role it has played as both disciplinary institution and penal option from the late sixteenth century onward. Placing particular emphasis on the prisons of the Netherlands, Germany, and France, The Prison Experience examines not only the long-term nature of prisons and the historical conceptions of their prisoners but also looks at the daily lives of inmates—supplementing our understanding of social change and day-to-day life in early modern Europe.
Prison Profiteers
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Author : Tara Herivel
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2011-05-10
Prison Profiteers written by Tara Herivel and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-10 with Social Science categories.
“No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences” (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation). In Prison Profiteers, coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright “follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits” (Publishers Weekly). From investment banks, guard unions, and the makers of Taser stun guns to health care providers, telephone companies, and the US military (which relies heavily on prison labor), this network of perversely motivated interests has turned the imprisonment of 1 out of every 135 Americans into a lucrative business. Called “an essential read for anyone who wants to understand what’s gone wrong with criminal justice in the United States” by ACLU National Prison Project director Elizabeth Alexander, this incisive and deftly researched volume shows how billions of tax dollars designated for the public good end up lining the pockets of those private enterprises dedicated to keeping prisons packed. “An important analysis of a troubling social trend” that is sure to inform and outrage any concerned citizen, Prison Profiteers reframes the conversation by exposing those who stand to profit from the imprisonment of millions of Americans (Booklist). “Indispensable . . . An easy and accessible read—and a necessary one.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “This is lucid, eye-opening reading for anyone interested in American justice.” —Publishers Weekly “Impressive . . . A thoughtful, comprehensive and accessible analysis of the money trail behind the prison-industrial-complex.” —The Black Commentator