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Concrete Mama - Prison Profiles from Walla Walla (Paperback, second edition)
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Concrete Mama - Prison Profiles from Walla Walla (Paperback, second edition)
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Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside
the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in
1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned
its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time
and punishment. It was a brutal transition. McCoy and Hoffman
roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and
befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking
depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to
fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside
world. McCoy’s unadorned prose and Hoffman’s stunning
black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life
in the Big House as “outsiders” are ever likely to experience.
Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously
unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it
won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still
relevant, it is revitalized in a second edition with an
introduction by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context
for the book's ongoing resonance, along with several previously
unpublished photographs.
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