Author: Joseph Wheelan
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: prison, civil, war, notorious, daring, breakout, libby, escape
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-02-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1586487167
ISBN-13: 9781586487164

While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North’s and South’s willingness to use prisoners in waging “total war.”In a converted tobacco warehouse, Libby’s 1,200 Union officers survived on cornbread and bug-infested soup, and slept without blankets on the bare floor. With prisoner exchanges suspended, escape a

Authors:K.C. Carceral, Thomas Bernard,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: prison, private, alternative, criminology, inside, life, inc, convict, exposes
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814799558
ISBN-13: 9780814799550

"Something changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don’t know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me." â€"From Prison, Inc. Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, not much is known about h

Author: Demico Boothe
Publisher: Full Surface Publishing
Keywords: men, prison, lives, african, american, entity, industry, comprehensive, account, black, predatory
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0979295300
ISBN-13: 9780979295300

African-American males are being imprisoned at an alarming and unprecedented rate. Out of the more than 11 million black adult males in the U.S. population, nearly 1.5 million are in prisons and jails with another 3.5 million more on probation or parole or who have previously been on probation or parole. Black males make up the majority of the total prison population, and due to either present or past incarceration is the most socially disenfranchised group of american citizens in the country today. This book, which was penned by Boothe while he was still incarcerated, details the author’

Author: Paul Western
Publisher: Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd
Keywords: prison
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-02-07
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 1847538304
ISBN-13: 9781847538307

Prison is a dark satire exploring themes of confinement and free will. In a hall-of-mirrors Britain, malcontents are held in the ancient, city-sized penitentiary known simply as Prison. Edwin Norris, a dissatisfied showbiz reporter, tries to launch a serious career by investigating the place, only to become a captive himself. Journeying through the grotesque dominions of Prison, Edwin is subject to re-education, joins a protest that becomes a riot and narrowly escapes being tortured to death. His injuries are healed only for him to be used in a medical experiment. Later, he witnesses the prost

Author: John J. Davis
Publisher: Sheffield Pub Co
Keywords: prison, paradise
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1879215357
ISBN-13: 9781879215351

Paradise to Prison is a commentary, textbook and complete study guide to the book of Genesis. In very readable fashion the author explores the lives of the patriarchs as well as important doctrinal themes. Each chapter is carefully documented and sources from archaeology and ancient Near Eastern history are freely used. The writer’s premise is that no other ancient literature surviving the ravages of time can rightly be compared to Genesis with its unsurpassed theological perspectives and vivid profiles of early man.

Author: Marquis De Sade
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: prison, letters
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-05-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 155970411X
ISBN-13: 9781559704113

The 1990s have seen a resurgence of interest in the Marquis de Sade, with several biographies competing to put their version of his life story before the public. But Sadean scholar Richard Seaver takes us directly to the source, translating Sade’s prison correspondence. Seaver’s translations retain the aristocratic hauteur of Sade’s prose, which still possesses a clarity that any reader can appreciate. "When will my horrible situation cease?" he wrote to his wife shortly after his incarceration began in 1777. "When in God’s name will I be let out of the tomb where I hav

Author: Jimmie
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: prison, sex, death, life
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2005-01-18
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595339301
ISBN-13: 9780595339303

What is life, death and sex all about behind prison walls? Do men actually fall in love with other men? How prevalent are beatings or death? There are three laws to follow in prison, free world law and the prison’s and prisoner’s laws.