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"How can people involved in carceral interventions learn from work in carceral settings outside the United States? This volume addresses this question by gathering international perspectives to the field of education in prison that could inform carceral interventions elsewhere, including in the United States"-- Contributors from many countries share their insights about effective educational programs for people in prison and show what the United States can learn from the models and struggles beyond its borders.Countries around the world have disparate experiences with education in prison. For decades, the United States has been locked in a pattern of exceptionally high mass incarceration. Though education has proven to be an impactful intervention, its role and the level of support it receives vary widely. As a result, effective opportunities for incarcerated people to reroute their lives during and after incarceration remain diffuse and inefficient. This volume highlights unique contributions from the field of education in prison globally. In this volume, academics and practitioners highlight new approaches and interesting findings from carceral interventions across twelve countries. From a college degree-granting program in Mexico to educational best practices in Norway and Belgium that support successful reentry, innovations in education are being developed in prison spaces around the world. As contributors from many countries share their insights about providing effective educational programs to incarcerated people, the United States can learn from the models and struggles beyond its borders.
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Prisoners --- Prisoners as artists --- Prisoners' writings, English --- Recreation --- Barlinnie Prison.
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An Architecture of Hope by Yvonne Jewkes explores the transformative potential of prison architecture to improve the quality of life for inmates and reduce reoffending rates. Drawing on her extensive research and experience in designing correctional facilities across the globe, Jewkes emphasizes the role of humane and aesthetically pleasing environments in fostering rehabilitation. Through interviews with prisoners and reflections on her personal experiences, the book highlights the emotional and psychological impact of architecture on individuals. Jewkes advocates for a shift away from punitive models towards a more compassionate approach in the criminal justice system. The book is intended for criminologists, architects, policymakers, and those interested in criminal justice reform.
Prison reform. --- Prisoners. --- Prison reform --- Prisoners
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"In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded--there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today. Prisoners’ Bodies is the first book on the history of the ordinary prisoners’ movement, a prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of the prisoners’ organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lived experience and their politics. The stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoner’s publications, and archival material. Prisoners’ Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons."--
Prisoners --- Civil rights --- History
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The story of what happens when max denial collides with reality in max security - a very funny, sobering memoir about prison, magic mushrooms and redemption from award-winning comedian Andrew Hamilton (@andrew.hammo on TikTok and Instagram). Nominated Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Andrew Hamilton is also a regular comedian @yeahmadtv. For fans of Paul Carter, Rusty Young's Marching Powder, Orange Is The New Black and Mr Nice.
Ex-convicts --- Prisoners
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This book, researched and written under the auspices of the NYU Prison Research Lab, explores the issue of penal labor in the United States, focusing on the legal and social implications of the 13th Amendment's exception for prison labor. Through interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals and analysis of legislative efforts, the authors highlight the ongoing struggle to abolish 'prison slavery' and secure fair labor rights for inmates. The book chronicles the rise of the new abolition movement, including significant prison strikes and legislative campaigns aimed at amending state constitutions. It critically examines the moral and legal challenges in ending forced labor in prisons, the resistance faced from entrenched systems, and the broader implications for human rights and labor justice. The intended audience includes scholars, policymakers, activists, and anyone interested in criminal justice reform.
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"Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black. Beneath the Mountain is a reader's guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse, to Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes a previously unpublished communiqué from Angela Davis, written from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique that has since inspired a national movement. Beneath the Mountain offers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist critique and to further an understanding of the nature of repression and liberation"--
Prisoners --- Imprisonment --- Liberty.
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The book 'The People -V- The Mercedes Benz Looter' by Sanelisiwe Moloi is a memoir detailing the author's experiences and reflections during a challenging period in her life, including time spent in prison. The narrative explores themes of personal growth, societal norms, and the search for identity and purpose. Through her interactions with fellow inmates and introspection, the author delves into the complexities of freedom, both physical and mental, while highlighting the importance of family, friendship, and spirituality. The memoir is intended for readers interested in personal stories of resilience and transformation.
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Le 6 mai 1931, aux abords du bois de Vincennes, on inaugurait l’une des attractions majeures de l’entre-deux-guerres : l’Exposition coloniale internationale. Au même moment, le Martinière, un vapeur français, quittait le port de Saigon dans le plus grand secret. Dans ses cales, cinq cent trente-cinq “indigènes” de dix-huit à trente-cinq ans, enfermés dans des cages de fer, droits communs et politiques mélangés, embarqués pour Cayenne. Si la conquête de l’Indochine avait provoqué des révoltes impitoyablement réprimées, celles de la fin des années 1930 marquèrent l’irruption du nationalisme moderne puis du communisme dans la lutte anti coloniale qui, ultérieurement, triompherait à Ði?n Biên Ph?. Confrontée à des grèves, des manifestations, des soulèvements, des mutineries d’une ampleur inconnue, la “Perle de l’Empire” répondait par une répression féroce : tortures, exécutions capitales à la chaîne. Au total, des milliers de morts et de prisonniers. Dans ce contexte, le projet de transportation par le Martinière présentait, pour les autorités coloniales en place, de très nombreux avantages : désengorger les prisons, éloigner les fomenteurs de troubles, mettre à disposition une main-d’œuvre pour des colonies en mal de peuplement comme la Guyane, dont le gouverneur de l’époque notait : “L’Asiatique et le Malgache sont plus intéressants que l’Arabe ; ils sont plus résistants au climat, plus travailleurs et plus sobres : c’est donc cet élément qu’il serait souhaitable de voir importer.” Ce qui sera fait. D’interviews en dépouillement de journaux et en consultation d’archives, Christèle Dedebant a pu reconstituer la vie et le destin de ce demi-millier de bagnards “annamites”, condamnés à défricher l’arrière-pays guyanais pour n’être libérés, quand ils avaient survécu, que dans les années 1960.Tant d’histoires, petites et grandes, méritaient de sortir du néant. L’autrice s’y est magistralement employée.
Political prisoners --- Vietnamese --- Deportees --- Penal colonies --- Political prisoners --- France
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