The prisoner's world
Subtitle: portraits of convicts caught in the incarceration binge
By: William Tregea and Marjorie Larmour.
Contributors: Larmour, Marjorie, 1920-
Series: Issues in crime & justice
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780739129159; 9780739129166; 9780739132555
Subjects: Prisoners -- California -- Social conditions; Prisoners -- California -- Biography; Prisoners -- Michigan -- Social conditions; Prisoners -- Michigan -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Synopsis: The Prisoners' World seeks to make the prisoners' voice come alive for regular college classroom students via author narrative essays as well as over sixty prisoner essays that shine light into prisoner experiences in California and Michigan penitentiaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical periods of prisoners' worlds; title: Premises of the incarceration binge culture; title: Binge growth theory; title: Families and home; title: Pathways to prison; title: Getting into "the system"; title: Cells; title: Daily work routine; title: Correctional officers; title: Prisoner free time; title: The homosexual prisoner; title: Drugs and contraband in prison; title: Michigan Reformatory (MR) : young blacks caught (1987-1994) in Detroit's incarceration binge drug sweeps; title: Detroit's inner city : critique by youth (under 25) black prisoners at Michigan Reformatory (MR); title: Inner city experiences : black prisoners over 25 at Jackson State Prison, 1990-2000; title: Cocaine and addictive deadly crack in Detroit's inner city; title: Guns in the inner city; title: Prisoners' views on system and reentry; title: The end of the incarceration binge?