Tag: Prison

Free Download Joy Osborne, "An Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Chaplain"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1528998529 | EPUB | pages: 116 | 0.9 mb
An Inside Job is a gripping story of life as a chaplain inside Lincoln prison, a local jail opened in 1872. Joy Osborne writes from the heart with sensitivity and passion. The reader is drawn into a world which is generally unknown to the public. Following theological training, Joy felt God calling her beyond the church building to work inside the prison walls with some of the country’s most prolific offenders. She shared in the lives of those shunned by society and saw beyond crimes committed to the person’s humanity. Inside the busy jail, it was often ministry on the ‘hoof’, responding to an immediate crisis. Being ready with a listening ear, advice, compassion, an offer of help and prayers when requested were just part of a busy day. The challenges of prison life are portrayed in this book and are felt by the reader as they journey with Joy on an amazing walk through the prison and beyond.

Free Download William H. Render, "Through Prison Bars: The Lives and Labours of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry"
English | 2017 | ASIN: B071Z8B6S8 | EPUB | pages: 148 | 1.1 mb
A fascinating look-first published in 1894-at two philanthropists known as the "Prisoner’s Friends" and the early history of prison reform.

Free Download Australia’s Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0143780794 | 336 Pages | EPUB | 1.4 MB
Welcome to Long Bay, Australia’s hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls.

Free Download Reiko Hillyer, "A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States"
English | ISBN: 1478030135 | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised; and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media-in contrast to corrections officials-described the public as potential victims who required constant protection against the threat of violence. In A Wall Is Just a Wall Reiko Hillyer focuses on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits to examine the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to transcend prison boundaries. Illuminating prisoners’ lived experiences as they suffered, critiqued, survived, and resisted changing penal practices, she shows that the current impermeability of the prison is a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon. By tracking the "thickening" of prison walls, Hillyer historicizes changing ideas of risk, the growing bipartisan acceptance of permanent exile and fixing the convicted at the moment of their crime as a form of punishment, and prisoners’ efforts to resist.

Free Download The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe, Paul Boehmer, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07S1Y773T | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 11 hours and 17 minutes | 149 Mb
From the author of the best-selling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world’s most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyses the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians-and the decision-making process itself – that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world’s largest "open prison".

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Free Download Andrew William Wright, "Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle"
English | 2012 | pages: 211 | ISBN: 1605424684 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
As a six-time world champion, TV commentator, and holder of more than 35 major titles in WWE, WCW, and TNA, Huffman knows what it means to fight. He learned long before he entered the ring, when daily survival was a fierce battle.

Free Download Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHJ9KKCD | 2023 | 12 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Ben Austen
Narrator: Brett Barry
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. The United States, alone, locks up a quarter of the world’s incarcerated people. And yet apart from clichés-paying a debt to society; you do the crime, you do the time-there is little sense collectively in America what constitutes retribution or atonement. We don’t actually know why we punish. Ben Austen’s powerful exploration offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of parole. Told through the portraits of two men imprisoned for murder, and the parole board that holds their freedom in the balance, Austen’s unflinching storytelling forces us to reckon with some of the most profound questions underlying the country’s values around crime and punishment. What must someone who commits a terrible act do to get a second chance? What does incarceration seek to accomplish? An illuminating work of narrative nonfiction, Correction challenges us to consider for ourselves why and who we punish-and how we might find a way out of an era of mass imprisonment.

Free Download Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031410602 | 542 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world. Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems. The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally.

Free Download Richard Greeman, "Men in Prison (Spectre)"
English | 2014 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1604867361 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Startlingly human and unflinchingly honest, this thinly veiled fictionalized firsthand account of talented political writer Victor Serge’s time in prison is an important addition to the canon of prison writing as well as an unfiltered view of humanity in the early 20th century. Rejecting the opportunity to present political propaganda, Serge’s portrayal of imprisonment is instead an insightful and emotionally wrought tale of repression. The depraving brutality that Serge experienced behind bars is at once a mirror of a society at war and a deeply personal question of purpose. Originally published in 1930 and translated from the French by Richard Greeman in 1977, this reprint makes a fascinating and compelling novel available again with a new introduction by Greeman that situates the work in the context of Serge’s life.

Free Download T. J. Parsell, "Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison"
English | 2007 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0786720379, 0786717939 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
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 drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were through, they flipped a coin to decide who would "own" him. Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates (one in which informers are murdered), Parsell’s experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence. In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims, the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told. For the first time Parsell, one of America’s leading spokespeople for prison reform, shares the story of his coming of age behind bars. He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge. Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie re-enactments, the real story has yet to be told. Fish is the first breakout story to do that.