Fourth city : essays from the prison in America / / edited by Doran Larson

• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 365.973
• Soggetto topico: Prisons - United States; Prisoners - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LarsonDoran <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Reading ; Notes on ContributorsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: At 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 aut
• Titolo autorizzato: Fourth city
• ISBN: 1-62895-019-6; 1-60917-397-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465195603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II