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The Prisoners' World
Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge
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2009
Summary
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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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2915-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3255-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
354
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Historical Periods of Prisoners' Worlds No access
Chapter 2. Premises of the Incarceration Binge Culture No access
Chapter 3. Prison Binge Growth Theory No access
Chapter 4. Families and Home No access
Chapter 5. Pathways to Prison No access
Chapter 6. Getting into "The System" No access
Chapter 7. Cells No access
Chapter 8. Daily Work Routine No access
Chapter 9. Correctional Officers No access
Chapter 10. Prisoner Free Time No access
Chapter 11. The Homosexual Prisoner No access
Chapter 12. Drugs and Contraband in Prison No access
Chapter 13. Michigan Reformatory: Young Blacks Caught in Detroit's Incarceration Binge Drug Sweeps, 1987–1994 No access
Chapter 14. Detroit's Inner City: Critique by Black Youth Prisoners (under Twenty-Five) at Michigan Reformatory No access
Chapter 15. Inner City Experiences: Black Prisoners over Twenty-Five at Jackson State Prison, 1990–2000 No access
Chapter 16. Cocaine and Addictive Deadly Crack in Detroit's Inner City No access
Chapter 17. Guns in the Inner City No access
Chapter 18. Prisoners' Views on System and Reentry No access
Chapter 19. The End of the Incarceration Binge? No access
Websites and Organizations No access Pages 323 - 328
