DIY for Prisoners

DIY for Prisoners
Author: Freebird Publishers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780998036168

DIY for Prisoners is a Do It Yourself book that explains how to make something out of nothing.Are you tired of paying someone else to do things for you? Wish you knew how to make things yourself? Ever wonder how other people know how to make things that can help you survive in everyday prison life. Item like lines for your wet clothes, big bars of soap to shower with, spinners to use as dice, new uses for jars and bags, and many other beneficial items Worry no more, DIY for Prisoners tells you the supplies you need, easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for each project. The book includes graphics for visual aids, glossary and charts. You'll learn for yourself how to do things that otherwise you'd have to do without or must pay someone else to do. DIY will teach you how to make everyday items that help daily living and needs of prisoners. This book will show you how to think inside and outside the box. To make prison life a little more comfortable and easier to get along.

Prisoners' Inventions

Prisoners' Inventions
Author: Angelo (prisoner.)
Publisher: Whitewalls
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Artists' books
ISBN: 9780945323020

Imagine that your house spans six by nine feet, your mattress is just two inches thick, you are known to your neighbors by an identification number, and items most consider crucial to everyday existence are outlawed. How do inmates in prisons like this throughout the United States make such lives bearable? In 2001, the artists' collective Temporary Services asked an incarcerated artist named Angelo to share with them the ways in which inmates adapt to their confinement. Angelo responded with over one hundred pages of meticulously detailed ink drawings and text. The resulting compilation, Prisoners' Inventions, is a unique guide to prison life, covering subjects ranging from how to cook a grilled cheese sandwich in a locker to how to chill a soda using a toilet. Many of the documented items--such as cigarette lighters, condoms, even alarm clocks--are considered contraband, and Angelo includes anecdotes describing their creation and use. Already featured in Playboy, Harper's, Le Monde, and on This American Life, Prisoners' Inventions provides powerful testimony to life "on the inside" as it is endured by over two million individuals in the United States alone.

Prison Ramen

Prison Ramen
Author: Clifton Collins
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0761185526

A unique and edgy cookbook, Prison Ramen takes readers behind bars with more than 65 ramen recipes and stories of prison life from the inmate/cooks who devised them, including celebrities like Slash from Guns n’ Roses and the actor Shia LaBeouf. Instant ramen is a ubiquitous food, beloved by anyone looking for a cheap, tasty bite—including prisoners, who buy it at the commissary and use it as the building block for all sorts of meals. Think of this as a unique cookbook of ramen hacks. Here’s Ramen Goulash. Black Bean Ramen. Onion Tortilla Ramen Soup. The Jailhouse Hole Burrito. Orange Porkies—chili ramen plus white rice plus ½ bag of pork skins plus orange-flavored punch. Ramen Nuggets. Slash’s J-Walking Ramen (with scallions, Sriracha hot sauce, and minced pork). Coauthors Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez and Clifton Collins Jr. are childhood friends—one an ex-con, now free and living in Mexico, and the other a highly successful Hollywood character actor who’s enlisted friends and celebrities to contribute their recipes and stories. Forget flowery writing about precious, organic ingredients—these stories are a first-person, firsthand look inside prison life, a scared-straight reality to complement the offbeat recipes.

DIY Resistance

DIY Resistance
Author: Anthony Alvarado
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-07-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1609808134

DIY Resistance celebrates the power of the people and shows how readers can take inspiration from the actions and words of leaders, activists, and historical heroes; how we can learn to take care of ourselves physically and emotionally in troubled times, and do our part to look after the larger community around us. Our fight is not a new one. It has been going on continuously for thousands of years, as individuals and movements have stood up to despots and demagogues. DIY Resistance recalls the successful actions people's movements use to defeat tyrants: defend free speech, look after your community, fight racism and misogyny, organize, protest, network, publish. The lessons of successful resistance are rich and they are everywhere around us. Take note, find your inspiration and your strength, and join others around you who share your commitment.

Dear Books to Prisoners

Dear Books to Prisoners
Author: Bo-Won Keum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780939306152

Selected letters from Incarcerated Persons requesting books from Books to Prisoners, a Prison Book Program.

Prisoner's Arts and Crafts Companion

Prisoner's Arts and Crafts Companion
Author: Tanner George Cummings
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-08
Genre:
ISBN:

The author of The Cell Chef Cookbook s and DIY for Prisoners has done it again, with this new how-to book Prisoner's Arts & Crafts Companion. This book includes many tricks and trades learned from within the walls and has composed them into an easy-to-read and understandable book just for you. This book has so many arts and crafts projects including but not limited to Making Rosaries, Making Greeting Cards, Art patterns, and more. Don't have a chess board or chess pieces, no problem! Inside this book, you'll find ways to accommodate this problem with relative ease.We cannot forget our beloved game of Bingo, yup, you guessed it, it's in this funicular book too. Like to draw, yes, there are many different ways to draw, and as I mentioned earlier there are patterns in here too.... but there are ways to make a pattern bigger and or smaller. Have you ever wondered how someone made an envelope? Now you can read all about it inside this book. Learn how to make a stand for your board(s). We all need more resources and books to help us on our journey to success. We all need to know what we can and cannot do. And for that reason, I have included some information that may be useful to you. So, don't hesitate, to get your copy today and add it to your ever-growing collection of resources and how-to books by Tanner G. Cummings.

Inside This Place, Not of It

Inside This Place, Not of It
Author: Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786632306

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.

Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex
Author: Kevin Wehr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135093113

This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison system.

Slumber Party from Hell

Slumber Party from Hell
Author: Sue Ellen Allen
Publisher: Inkwell Productions
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0982958927

What happens to a successful woman when her world falls apart and she is faced with betrayal, breast cancer, and prison? What happens when her pain Is unimaginable and her choices look bleak. When all this happened to Sue Ellen Allen, she chose to turn her pain into power. The death of Gina, her young roommate, coupled with an atmosphere of darkness and negativity, led her to find her passion and purpose behind the bars. Her experience of cancer, prison, and Gina s death is an inspirational story of courage, wisdom, and choices.