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The Prisoners' World - Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Paperback, New)
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The Prisoners' World - Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Paperback, New)
Series: Issues in Crime and Justice
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Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and
volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The
Prisoners' World strives to make the 'prisoners' voice' come alive
for regular college students. The book starts off by tracing shifts
in social definitions of criminality, and lays out the premises of
the U.S. incarceration binge in the 1986 War on Drugs laws and
subsequent mandatory sentencing and policing. Later chapters
discuss issues such as leaving home, cell life, correctional
officers and treatment, the homosexual prisoner, and drugs.
Furthermore, the book discusses the teachers' experiences via
author narrative essays that draw the reader into prisoner student
and prisoner teacher interaction, and what it is like inside prison
college classes where both young and older black prisoner students
describe growing up in the inner cities. The book also draws upon
over sixty prisoner essays that provide insight on prisoner life
and self-concept with insights on pathways to prison, drug selling,
the inner city and guns. There is also a strong focus on the
'inside' experiences of entering prison and orientation, daily work
routine, correctional officers and surreptitious activities like
cell cooking and contraband. These essays are capped by prisoner
critiques of prison life from those still in the system. The
Prisoners' World serves as a successful supplemental book whose
material has proven useful in undergraduate criminal justice
classes. As college students themselves, on-campus students in
these classes will identify with the prisoner-student voices who
share their experiences but in a radically different environment.
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