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My Life with Lifers
Author : Elaine Leeder
Release : 2012-02-24
Genre : Education
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Download or read book My Life with Lifers written by Elaine Leeder. This book was released on 2012-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have always been drawn to darkness," Elaine Leeder writes. "I know I always championed the underdog." That path has led her through many years of teaching prisoners and now to San Quentin in California and her current role as a leader of the inmates' own group, New Leaf on Life. There, although many of the "lifers" she teaches have served twenty to thirty years and are eligible for parole, they never see that opportunity because of the popular view that they are all "hardened criminals," killers incapable of rehabilitation and unfit to be free. What Leeder has learned, however, is that incarceration does not dictate character. Her students, although they are convicts, are committed to making their time in jail a life sentence in the best sense, not a death sentence. They have gone the extra mile to come to terms with their crimes, and have often managed to redeem their lives. My Life With Lifers shares the journey of a woman "on the outside" as she discovered the true nature of life in prison, and the roadblocks -- so many unneeded -- on the inmates' path to freedom. What Leeder's experiences add up to is both a fascinating human story and a reasoned and impassioned case for prison reform.
Lifers
Author : John Irwin
Release : 2010-03-17
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Lifers written by John Irwin. This book was released on 2010-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, society’s purposes of imprisonment, and offenders’ reformability. Through the lifers’ stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.
A Grip of Time
Author : Lauren Kessler
Release : 2019-04-25
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book A Grip of Time written by Lauren Kessler. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security prison while illuminating the benefits of the craft of writing. . . . compassionate.” —Publishers Weekly A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes readers into a world most know little about—a maximum-security prison—and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers’ Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives. As they struggle with the weight of their guilt and wonder if they should hope for a future outside prison walls, Kessler struggles with the fiercely competing ideas of rehabilitation and punishment, forgiveness and blame that are at the heart of the American penal system. Gripping, intense, and heartfelt, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life shows what a lifetime with no hope of release looks like up-close. “Takes us on a compelling, intensely personal journey into the rarely glimpsed end point of our justice system . . . What dignity, meaning, and success these lifers achieve despite the system’s design.” —Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t “A keenly observed and deeply felt narrative . . . so original and so compelling . . . it wouldn’t let me go.” —Alex Kotlowitz, national bestselling author of An American Summer
Doing Life
Author : Howard Zehr
Release : 1996-12
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Doing Life written by Howard Zehr. This book was released on 1996-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What they have done and how they cope with prison life.
