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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.

Free Download You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent by Justin Brooks
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0520386833 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 4.7 MB
Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you.

Free Download Jennifer Schlosser, "Inmates’ Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral progr"
English | ISBN: 1138065897 | 2017 | 164 pages | EPUB | 276 KB
The question of ‘what works’ in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. One of the primary ways the criminal justice system tries to reduce the rates of recidivism among offenders is through the use of cognitive behavioural programs (CBP) as in-prison intervention strategies. The emphasis for these programs is on the idea that inmates are in prison because they made poor choices and bad decisions. Inmates’ thinking is characterized as flawed and the purpose of the program is to teach them to think and act in socially appropriate ways so they will be less inclined to return to prison after their release.

Free Download Karlene Faith, "The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult "
English | ISBN: 1555534813 | 2001 | 160 pages | AZW3 | 981 KB
A criminology professor goes behind bars to chronicle the extraordinary story of Leslie Van Houten, one of the infamous "Manson girls," describing her early life, her involvement with Charles Manson and his group’s 1969 murder rampage, her life in prison, and her struggle to rediscover her own identity.

Free Download Nursing in Prison
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031306627 | 159 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting. The main focus is the provision of healthcare in the Prison Service of England and Wales, although examples will also be drawn from the United States of America and Australia. Healthcare within prison settings has changed remarkably to address the needs of the changing prison populations. Thus, this text is clearly structured to support student nurses to understand the role of the nurse within prison and how the different specialities of nursing are applied in this unique setting. This textbook provides an overview of the context of prison, prisoners, and healthcare, as well as the experiences of nurse specialists who work in this field, including adult, mental health, and learning disability nurses across primary care, mental health services, substance misuse and end-of-life care.

Free Download Arun Ferreira, "Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir"
English | 2014 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 9382277706 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
In May 2007, human rights activist Arun Ferreira was picked up from the railway station and arrested by the Nagpur Police on charges of being a Naxalite. Over the next few months, he was charged with more crimes-of criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms and rioting, among others-and incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in Maharashtra, the Nagpur Central Jail. This is an account of the nearly five years that Ferreira was imprisoned. We read in stark and unsparing detail about life in prison-the torture; the beatings; the corrupt system; the codes of behaviour among inmates; the strikes mounted by prisoners to protest brutality; the general air of helplessness and the small consolations that keep hope alive. In September 2011, Ferreira was acquitted of all charges and a breath away from freedom when he was re-arrested by plainclothes policemen at the prison gates. He never got a glimpse of his family who were waiting just outside. He began to fight the system all over again, until with the help of courageous friends and activists, he was cleared of all the trumped up charges that had put him in prison. Colours of the Cage is the real story of what goes on behind bars-not the celluloid or novelistic version that readers will be familiar with. However, it is not just a gritty, harrowing account of life in prison but also a memoir of astonishing power and grace-about a man’s stubborn fight for justice and the triumph of the human will.

Free Download Prison Gangs Behind Bars and Beyond: A Vicious Game
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031317807 | 391 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and organised crime in the North of England. It includes the personal testimonies of active prison gang members and major organised crime figures, many of whom are behind bars, and some active street gang members. It presents an holistic account by exploring the linkages that exist between prisons and the streets, including the lines of continuity between gangs on both sides of the prison walls and how gang affiliation straddles this divide. It offers data on the region’s drug market (specifically Class A drugs) as this market is the lynchpin of the underworld, both within and without prison. It also includes the perspectives and insights of prison officers, police detectives, youth workers, active and former street gang members and the parents of deceased gang members. This is a ground-breaking, contemporary study, analysing English gang compositions and activities, with its findings and results based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research.

Free Download What’s Prison For?: Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia Global Reports) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09XFKK8QM | 2022 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Bill Keller
Narrator: Landon Woodson

Free Download You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVDJLN76 | 2023 | 7 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Justin Brooks
Narrator: Justin Brooks
Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting listeners at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks’s cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system, one where innocence is no protection from incarceration or even the death penalty. Simultaneously relatable and disturbing, You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent is essential listening for anyone who wants to better understand how injustice is served by our system.

Free Download Erin Hatton, "Labor and Punishment: Work in and out of Prison"
English | ISBN: 0520305337 | 2021 | 282 pages | EPUB | 854 KB
The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the criminal justice system are profoundly implicated in the production and reproduction of the low-wage "exploitable" precariat, both within and beyond prison walls. The carceral state is a regime of labor discipline-and a growing one-that extends far beyond its own inmate labor. This regime not only molds inmates into compliant workers willing and expected to accept any "bad" job upon release but also compels many Americans to work in such jobs under threat of incarceration, all the while bolstering their "exploitability" and socioeconomic marginality.