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Author | : Saundra D. Westervelt |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2012-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813553393 |
Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated. Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook present eighteen exonerees’ stories, focusing on three central areas: the invisibility of the innocent after release, the complicity of the justice system in that invisibility, and personal trauma management. Contrary to popular belief, exonerees are not automatically compensated by the state or provided adequate assistance in the transition to post-prison life. With no time and little support, many struggle to find homes, financial security, and community. They have limited or obsolete employment skills and difficulty managing such daily tasks as grocery shopping or banking. They struggle to regain independence, self-sufficiency, and identity. Drawing upon research on trauma, recovery, coping, and stigma, the authors weave a nuanced fabric of grief, loss, resilience, hope, and meaning to provide the richest account to date of the struggles faced by people striving to reclaim their lives after years of wrongful incarceration.
Author | : Katya Lezin |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781555534578 |
"In this disturbing book, Lezin puts a human face on the debate about capital punishment." -- Publishers Weekly
Author | : Jarvis Jay Masters |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611809118 |
There are many forms of liberation—some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away. In this stirring and timely collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters, Jarvis Jay Masters explores the meaning of true freedom on his road to inner peace through Buddhist practice. He reveals his life as a young African American man surrounded by violence, his entanglement in the criminal justice system, and—following an encounter with Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche—an unfolding commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking. At turns joyful, heartbreaking, frightening, and soaring with profound insight, Masters’s story offers a vision of hope and the possibility of freedom in even the darkest of times.
Author | : Hans Toch |
Publisher | : American Psychological Association (APA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781433829000 |
PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology This book synthesizes scholarly reflections with personal accounts from prison administrators and inmates to show the harsh reality of life on death row.
Author | : Katya Lezin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Death row inmates |
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Author | : Anthony Ray Hinton |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250124719 |
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Author | : Wilbert Rideau |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-01-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1847654649 |
In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession. When we meet Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality, sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot. Yet Rideau breaks through all this and finds hope and meaning, becoming editor of the prison magazine, going on to win national journalism awards. Full of gritty realism and potent in its evocation of a life condemned, Rideau goes far beyond the traditional prison memoir and reveals an emotionally wrought and magical conclusion to his forty-four years in prison.
Author | : Robert Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : David Sheff |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0008395454 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.
Author | : Robert Blecker |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137381337 |
For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, the history and philosophy professor exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it's nobody's job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often live the best lives. The Death of Punishment challenges the reader to refine deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime. It argues that society must redesign life and death in prison to make the punishment more nearly fit the crime. It closes with the final irony: If we make prison the punishment it should be, we may well abolish the very death penalty justice now requires.