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War on the Family: Mothers in Prison and the Families They Leave Behind by Renny Golden

When most people think of prisoners, they think of more...0 points

When most people think of prisoners, they think of men. Yet women are the fastest growing prison population. Perhaps more surprising, some 75% of women behind bars are mothers. Each year these mothers leave behind 350,000 children under the age of 18. More than half of mothers in state prisons never see their children during their incarceration.In The War on the Family, noted social rights activist Renny Golden shows that as a direct result of President Ronald Reagan's administration's War On Dr...0 points

Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, The (8th Edition) by Jeffrey Reiman

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Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards

A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or more...0 points

A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any time in American history, staying alive and well -- both mentally and physically -- is tougher than ever.0 points

Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards

Can the common criminal get a fresh start An essential more...0 points

Can the common criminal get a fresh start An essential resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because they spend enough time in prison to disrupt their connections to their families and their communities, they are not prepared for the difficult and often life-threatening process of reentry. As a result, the....0 points

Doing Time - Life Inside the Big House

Called "riveting and beautifully made" b more...0 points

Called "riveting and beautifully made" by The New York Times, the Academy Award®-nominated DOING TIME: LIFE INSIDE THE BIG HOUSE takes a hard-edged look at life inside the walls of Lewisburg, a maximum security federal penitentiary where the notion of rehabilitation and parole have all but been abandoned.After gaining unprecedented permission from the Justice Department, Emmy® Award-winner Alan Raymond spent five weeks inside Lewisburg. With access to the entire prison, the Raymonds captured the...0 points

Inside: Life Behind Bars in America by Michael G. Santos

American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million more...0 points

American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture. Michael G. Santos, a federal prisoner nearing the end of his second decade of continuous confinement, documents the lives of the men warehoused in the American prison system. Inside: Life Behind Bars in America, his first book for the general public, takes us behind those bars and into the chaos of the cellblock.Capt...0 points

How to Do Good After Prison: A Handbook for Successful Reentry (w/ Employment Information Handbook) by Michael B. Jackson

There are two types of barriers that can hinder an more...0 points

There are two types of barriers that can hinder an excon's successful re-entry into society. There are those created by public policy and public attitude. However, in too many cases, there are also those barriers he creates for himself by lacking a plan, the right attitude, or the personal commitment to see it through. "How to Do Good After Prison" is a practical guide of advice, insight, and motivation to help ex-prisoners overcome the barriers and succeed after prison.0 points

The Big House: Life Inside a Supermax Security Prison by Warden James H. Bruton

The warden tells all! "The Big House" is more...0 points

The warden tells all! "The Big House" is an engaging page-turner and frightening insider's look at life in a world-famous maximum-security prison, the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights. This account of life on the other side of the razor ribbon is the first to be told from a warden's perspective. The former long-time warden at the prison, Bruton tells numerous stories and chilling and gruesome anecdotes about the convicts, attempts to understand the criminal mind, and explain...0 points

Against Their Will: Women in Prison

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Life in Prison by Stanley Williams, Barbara Cottman

"The true stories I've written in this book a more...0 points

"The true stories I've written in this book are my living nightmares. My greatest hope is that the lessons the stories offer will help you make better choices than I did." Stanley "Tookie" Williams, cofounder of the notorious Crips gang, is a death-row inmate. But in his two decades of incarceration, Williams has also become a respected author and activist whose dedication to ending gang warfare in the lives of inner-city children has earned him a 2001 Nobel Peace Prize nomination. In this award...0 points

Lessons from San Quentin: Everything I Needed to Know about Life I Learned in Prison by Bill Dallas

Real-estate entrepreneur Bill Dallas's charmed life more...0 points

Real-estate entrepreneur Bill Dallas's charmed life changed dramatically when he was charged, convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison for grand-theft embezzlement. Lessons from San Quentin tells the amazing true story of how one man's life was changed for the better due to the hardships encountered at the legendary maximum-security prison. Using stories and reflections from life on the inside, Bill teaches 12 core principles that will inspire readers to use tough times to develop the ch...0 points

Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars

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Studio: Music Video Dist Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 55 minutes0 points

Behind Prison Walls: The Real World of Working in Today's Prisons by Tom Martin

If you want to know what today's murderers, gangba more...0 points

If you want to know what today's murderers, gangbangers and street predators are really like, take a step behind prison walls. A veteran prison guard reveals the truth behind staff rivalries, incarcerated killers, old-time cons, racial tension, inmate threats and ingenuity, and the darker sides of prisoner behavior.0 points

Prison Man Costume

Everyone will be on the lookout for this dude. No more...0 points

Everyone will be on the lookout for this dude. No question, society is not safe when this prisoner is on the loose. Ball & Chain and Shackles not included.0 points

Getting Out & Staying Out: A Black Man's Guide to Success After Prison by Demico Boothe

The United States of America has more people behind more...0 points

The United States of America has more people behind bars than any other country in the world and every year nearly 700,000 prisoners get released back into society, the largest percentage of them being Black males. Getting Out & Staying Out is a short, easy to read set of guidelines intended to help incarcerated and newly freed African-American men (a) learn how to most productively do their time while in prison (b) know what to expect once they are released (c) understand that entrepreneuralshi...0 points

Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One of the great classics of prison literature, Le more...0 points

One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis after incarceration in Tegel Prison. Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Now reissued with a new Preface, by one of his leading interpreters. Bonhoeffer's story seems as vitally relevan...0 points

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish by Jimmy A. Lerner

A memoir of astonishing power-the true story of a middle-class, more...0 points

A memoir of astonishing power-the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada de...0 points

Serving Time, Serving Others: Acts of Kindness by Inmates, Prison Staff, Victims, and Volunteers by Tom Lagana, Laura Lagana

These inspiring and true stories reveal the restorative more...0 points

These inspiring and true stories reveal the restorative benevolence that is alive and well behind prison walls. Whether through a helping hand from another inmate, a gesture of kindness from a prison volunteer, or caring treatment and respect from a correctional officer, counselor, chaplain or other staff person, you will be uplifted as you read about amazing people who have performed humane acts in inhumane surroundings. Serving Time, Serving Others is for those who have ever spent time behind...0 points

Serving Productive Time: Stories, Poems, and Tips to Inspire Positive Change from Inmates, Prison Staff, and Volunteers by Tom Lagana, Laura Lagana

Are you or have you ever been incarcerated? Do you more...0 points

Are you or have you ever been incarcerated? Do you have a loved one in jail or prison? Do you work or volunteer at a correctional facility? Have you ever been the victim of a crime? Do you understand that we all share the responsibility of helping others-no matter who they are, where they live, or what they have done? If so, you understand that incarceration affects everyone and that only through positive change can people begin to heal and grow. In Serving Productive Time, you'll read abou...0 points