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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham  
Powells.com Staff Pick An equally absorbing and troubling inquiry into a case of criminal injustice, Grisham's nonfiction debut equals the storytelling of his unparalleled fiction. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Inside: Life Behind Bars in America (06 Edition)
by Michael G. Santos Publisher Comments From a federal inmate in his 18th year of continuous confinement comes a controversial expos of the shocking details of life in American prisons....
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham Publisher Comments In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
Powells.com Staff Pick An equally absorbing and troubling inquiry into a case of criminal injustice, Grisham's nonfiction debut equals the storytelling of his unparalleled fiction. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
by Tara J Herivel Publisher Comments Each year federal, state, and local governments spend more than $185 billion in tax dollars. The essays in this collection look at the private prison companies, investment banks, and other industries that benefit from this countrys experiment with mass...
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Women Behind Bars
by J A Talvi Silja Publisher Comments More and more women — mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters — are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little...
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman...
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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his...
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Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust
by Louis Ferrante Publisher Comments From the freewheeling rush of hijacking trucks to the brutal race wars that marked his decade-long stint in jail, former Mafia insider Louis Ferrante describes his remarkable journey from rising mobster to federal prison inmate to full-time writer. As...
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Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness
by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments Previously available only through free distribution to prisons, this life-changing book is the result of charitable donations from sales of Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul and gifts from thousands of individuals. In the spring of 2000, over...
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The Prisoner's Wife
by Asha Bandele Publisher Comments As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she...
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Death of Innocents : Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (05 Edition)
by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking," now takes readers to the new moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we're killing the wrong man? Prejean implores readers to reflect on what is perhaps the core moral issue of the death...
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Inside Rikers : Stories From the World's Largest Penal Colony (01 Edition)
by Jennifer Wynn Publisher Comments Part memoir, part social commentary, Inside Rikers details the author's experiences on Rikers -- the largest, most expensive correctional facility in the world. Wynn offers a compelling portrait of its 18,000 inmates and shows how Rikers was transformed...
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13 Women : Parables From Prison (06 Edition)
by Karlene Faith Publisher Comments However their stories differ in the details, all of the women in this book speak about their time in prison with eloquence and admirable candor. Some have spent most of their lives behind bars; for others, prison was a one-time experience. Most were...
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The Mentally Ill in Jail: Planning for Essential Services (Treatment Manuals for Practitioners)
by Henry J. Steadman Publisher Comments As U.S. jail populations continue to burgeon, more and more pressure is being placed on mental health services to help manage potentially explosive situations. When correctional administrators, criminal justice planners and consultants, mental health...
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Exit to Freedom
by Calvin C Johnson Publisher Comments Johnson tells the moving story of how he survived 16 years in Georgia prisonsbefore being exonerated on the basis of DNA evidence....
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Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars
by Jenny Phillips Publisher Comments Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive...
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Last Rights: 13 Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice
by Joseph Ingle Publisher Comments Reverend Joseph Ingle’s moving book argues eloquently and passionately against the death penalty, serving as an enduring testament to the inmates who have touched his life. Ingle, a counselor to prisoners on Death Row since 1974, chronicles his...
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American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
by Sasha Abramsky Publisher Comments In this disturbing yet elegant expose of U.S. penitentiaries and their surrounding communities, Sasha Abramsky shows how American prisons have abandoned their long-held ideal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. After surveying our current...
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Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance
by Leonard Peltier Publisher Comments Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his innocence ever since&...
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