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Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge

Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge

Tregea, William S.
Larmour, Marjorie S.

Paperback

Series: Issues in Crime and Justice

Biographies GeneralCriminology

ISBN10: 0739129163
ISBN13: 9780739129166
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 16 2009
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching prison college and volunteer classes in eleven Michigan and California prisons, The Prisoners' World strives to make the prisoners' voice come alive for regular college students.

The book starts off by tracing shifts in social definitions of criminality, and lays out the premises of the U.S. incarceration binge in the 1986 War on Drugs laws and subsequent mandatory sentencing and policing. Later chapters discuss issues such as leaving home, cell life, correctional officers and treatment, the homosexual prisoner, and drugs. Furthermore, the book discusses the teachers' experiences via author narrative essays that draw the reader into prisoner student and prisoner teacher interaction, and what it is like inside prison college classes where both young and older black prisoner students describe growing up in the inner cities.

The book also draws upon over sixty prisoner essays that provide insight on prisoner life and self-concept with insights on pathways to prison, drug selling, the inner city and guns. There is also a strong focus on the inside experiences of entering prison and orientation, daily work routine, correctional officers and surreptitious activities like cell cooking and contraband. These essays are capped by prisoner critiques of prison life from those still in the system.

The Prisoners' World serves as a successful supplemental book whose material has proven useful in undergraduate criminal justice classes. As college students themselves, on-campus students in these classes will identify with the prisoner-student voices who share their experiences but in a radically different environment.

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