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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

Rideau, Wilbert

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ISBN10: 0307264815
ISBN13: 9780307264817
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Awards: Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From Wilbert Rideau, the award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons working against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, the story of a remarkable life: a crime, its punishment, and ultimate triumph.
After killing a woman in a moment of panic following a botched bank robbery, Rideau, denied a fair trial, was improperly sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. After more than a decade on death row, his sentence was amended to life imprisonment, and he joined the inmate population of the infamous Angola penitentiary. Soon Rideau became editor of the prison newsmagazine The Angolite, which under his leadership became an uncensored, daring, and crusading journal instrumental in reforming the violent prison and the corrupt Louisiana justice system.

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