Decades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation With Men in America s Prisons - Couverture souple

Holman, Gaye D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476669236 ISBN 13 : 9781476669236

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2017

Synopsis

More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind.

Beginning in 1994, the author began recording the personal stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men candidly discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and to be confined for perhaps the remainder of their lives. Their stories are balanced by conversations with correctional officers, prison administrators, chaplains and parole board members. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gaye D. Holman is a retired professor of sociology. For several decades she taught within correctional facilities in the Louisville, Kentucky, area and coordinated her college's degree program there. She remains involved in efforts in Louisville to help ex-offenders re-enter society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476669236
• ISBN 13: 9781476669236
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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• Personne responsable: non disponible