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Title: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology by Bell Gale Chevigny ISBN: 1-55970-514-0 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Heart stopping
Comment: This compilation is an excellent example of the wasted potential that the US has sentenced to it's prisons. Within the covers of this book you will be brought to tears one moment then horrified a few moments later. You will be shown incredible human cruelty coupled with acts of caring and kindness. I was shocked at the depth of despair that these men and women experience.
I do not mean to say that the authors of these essays and poems should all be released from the penitentiary. Many of them deserve to be there. What I am saying is that everyone should read a book like this. Especially people involved in the judicial and law enforcement communities. We should educate and give hope to the men and women in our prisons. Because, as you will read in the book, a man without hope is a man who doesn't care anymore and a man who doesn't care anymore will do anything.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Fine and Lucid Anthology
Comment: Concerning a volume such as this, there is sometimes the expectation that the voices will be all too similar because the environments in which each is writing are much the same. This collection sets most of that concern aside. Each of these incarcerated voices retains an identity despite surroundings that would have it otherwise. Do they speak for all those behind bars? I doubt it. Here introspection is at work, likely the first time for many of these prisoners. It's difficult to believe that so many others, out of control, will ever achieve such a state,or even want to.
Rating: 5
Summary: put your life in perspective
Comment: It is easy to write off what these folks have to say-- but our nation needs to hear about the injustice of our prison system
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Title: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards ISBN: 0028643518 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words by Jeff Evans, Jimmy Santiago Baca ISBN: 1555534589 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Life in Prison by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Barbara Cottman Becnel ISBN: 1587170949 Publisher: SeaStar Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon ISBN: 0874221986 Publisher: Washington State Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish by JIMMY A. LERNER ISBN: 0767909186 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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