02940nam 2200625 450 991079228900332120230803024258.01-62895-019-61-60917-397-X(CKB)2560000000152600(EBL)1672320(SSID)ssj0001181410(PQKBManifestationID)11794369(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181410(PQKBWorkID)11142852(PQKB)11019130(OCoLC)879306260(MdBmJHUP)muse33958(MiAaPQ)EBC1672320(MiAaPQ)EBC4504419(Au-PeEL)EBL4504419(CaPaEBR)ebr11403622(OCoLC)929015212(Au-PeEL)EBL1672320(OCoLC)876514390(EXLCZ)99256000000015260020170717h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFourth city essays from the prison in America /edited by Doran LarsonEast Lansing, Michigan :Michigan State University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (351 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61186-107-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Prison Writer as Witness; Part One. Life on the Streets of Prison City; The Life; Ticket In; Coping with Life in Prison City; Ticket In; Seeking Peace in Prison City; Ticket In; Family Life In and From Prison City; Ticket In; Part Two. The Rules of Law, Policy, and Practice in Prison City; Inside Justice and Injustice; Kite Out; Civic Dysfunction and Its Critics; Kite Out; Mental and Physical Health Care; Kite Out; Community Activists; Kite Out; Prison and Reentry Programs; Epilogue; Editor's Afterword; Glossary; Further ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndexAt 2.26 million, incarcerated Americans not only outnumber the nation's fourth-largest city, they make up a national constituency bound by a shared condition. Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America presents more than seventy essays from twenty-seven states, written by incarcerated Americans chronicling their experience inside. In essays as moving as they are eloquent, the authors speak out against a national prison complex that fails so badly at the task of rehabilitation that 60% of the 650,000 Americans released each year return to prison. These essays document the autPrisonsUnited StatesPrisonersUnited StatesPrisonsPrisoners365.973Larson Doran1957-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792289003321Fourth city3842949UNINA