The Prison Chronicles

The Prison Chronicles
Author: D.K. Lawrence
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0578018861

This is the true story of a societal renegade and his ambition to find contentment. After months of emotional turmoil and self-righteous disdain for commonality, he walked off campus with a ruck-sack, intending to begin living purposefully. On his way toward the east coast, he pulled off an I-87 exit in upstate New York to take a spiritual sabbatical in the beautiful landscapes of the Adirondack Mountains. After a week of meditation and mental catharsis, he continued toward the east coast, making a detour through Montreal where he would be unjustly arrested. The Prison Chronicles is an enthralling discord detailing the clash between heinous violence and dehumanization among addicts, fiends, thieves, and murderers and the enduring good in all people-convicts and samaritans alike. Writing with a tenacious yet graceful fervor, Lawrence evokes a heartfelt revelation in the reader as he describes a gratitude for home and reverence for life with the culmination of his first novel.

Prison Chronicles

Prison Chronicles
Author: Wole Oguntokun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796310863

Prison Chronicles is the story of Cell Block B and its four prisoners alongside the Cell Warder and his wife also known as the first lady. In Block B which its inmates fondly call Heartbreak Hotel, the lives of the jailer and the jailed are more interwoven than its ruling class cares to admit to. This play, a metaphor for many developing countries and their class systems humorously depicts the struggle between the strata of society, a struggle in which sometimes the underdog wins.

Prison Control (Interracial Gay Erotica)

Prison Control (Interracial Gay Erotica)
Author: Sara Coxin
Publisher: PEAR Stories
Total Pages: 36
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154011063X

Rick is caught and sentenced to prison for committing white collar crimes. While waiting to transfer, he lies to his other cell mates to try and seem legitimate but ends up angering the wrong man. He's nearly beaten but is saved by the guards transferring them. When he arrives in his cell, he meets Bull, a big black muscular man who is more than unfriendly. To Rick's dismay, the cell mate he angered before transferring is also in the same prison. He's beaten up but Bull saves him. The black man lets Rick know that he gets a free save this time, but he'd better be ready to pay him back somehow later. Chase, Rick's husband, a tall, white, hairless model of a man visits him for their first conjugal visit. When Bull sees him, he knows exactly what he wants. After the visit, Rick is cornered but saved by Bull again. Bull gives him an offer, he gets a visit from Chase and Rick gets protection. Rick declines the offer and is soon left without a protector. During the next conjugal visit, Rick lets Bull's offer slip by accident and Chase contemplates it. Rick orders Chase not to do anything and that he'll be safe. However, Chase is too caring to let his husband survive in such a dangerous prison. He calls up the prison and schedules a visit with Bull. Once Chase meets Bull, it's one wild conjugal visit...

Prison Truth

Prison Truth
Author: William J. Drummond
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520298365

San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.

Chronicles of San Quentin

Chronicles of San Quentin
Author: Kenneth Church Lamott
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1789126010

First published in 1961, writing Chronicles of San Quentin was first suggested to Kenneth Lamott during a spell as a teacher at that California prison in the 1950’s. The book not only chronicles the history and highlights of one of America’s most famous penitentiaries, but it also reflects the changes in prisons in the U.S. over the last 100 years. Calmly informing us that there were over 4,000 murders in California between 1849-1855, Lamott quickly justifies the terrible need the state had for prisons other than lax, badly run county and city jails. But San Quentin itself, which started as a floating prison hulk, was little better. Here are its famous prisoners, riots and escapes, its floggings and brutalities, its executions too. With the coming of the “New Era” penology in the 1890’s, the change to more humane and rational treatment of prisoners is shown. The Clinton Duffy era is dealt with at great length—its shortcomings are shown along with its humane virtues—and prison life including the Chessman execution, is portrayed with sympathy and understanding. A highly readable book.

Prison of Hope

Prison of Hope
Author: Steve McHugh
Publisher: 47north
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781477828595

Long ago, Olympian gods imprisoned the demon Pandora in a human--Hope--creating a creature whose only purpose was chaos and death. Remorseful, the gods locked Pandora away in Tartarus, ruled by Hades. Now, centuries later, Pandora escapes. Nate Garrett, a 1,600-year-old sorcerer, is sent to recapture her and discovers her plan to disrupt the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, killing thousands in a misplaced quest for vengeance. Fast forward to modern-day Berlin, where Nate has agreed to act as guardian on a school trip to Germany to visit Hades at the entrance to Tartarus. When Titan King Cronus becomes the second ever to escape Tartarus, Nate is forced to track him down and bring him back, to avert a civil war between those who would use his escape to gain power. Prison of Hope is the fourth book in the highly acclaimed and action-packed dark urban fantasy series, the Hellequin Chronicles.

Chronicles of a Prison Dirty War

Chronicles of a Prison Dirty War
Author: Louis C Powell, Jr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977242549

The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons all across California were dangerous battle fields, as inmates waged war against one another. It was during this time period groups that such as the Black Guerrilla Family, Nuestra Familia, La Eme and Aryan Brotherhood came to prominence. The transformation of American society that was occurring outside of the prison walls was also being played out in its own way behind prison walls. Prison gangs, which largely formed along racial lines battled for respect, protection of their race and for control of pieces of the lucrative underground prison economy. Author Louis Powell takes readers on a journey into the world of prison politics. His raw telling of first hand accounts of brutal battles between inmates and incidents of treachery by prison staff that helped to fuel these battles are real eye openers. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested in prison politics.

The San Quentin Chronicles

The San Quentin Chronicles
Author: Frank Frogge
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154341530X

The San Quentin Chronicles is a raw, hard look at prison life as a white peckerwood and the countless days in the walls of San Quentin. It talks about heroin addiction and the price one pays behind barsfrom losing a wife to a disease to losing a daughter after getting clean. It tells how a hateful man can come back from all that bitterness and hatefulness and build a normal life, saving others like him. Its a story that will leave the readers spellbound and wanting more.