The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein's regime because of his literary...
Imprisonment
-
Author:Barzanji, Jalal, Salih, Sabah A., Saul, John RalstonSummary: -
Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown-and ends up in jail herself.In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance...
-
Author:Herivel, Tara, Wright, PaulSummary:In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" (Publishers Weekly...
- Author:Hill, John L.Summary:
Pine Box Parole begins with convicted murderer Terry Fitzsimmons hanging himself in Kingston Penitentiary. Subsequent chapters delve into the killer's background and describe the senseless killings upon which he embarks after spending...
-
Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary:Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
- Author:Schenwar, MayaSummary:
Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family’s experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that...
- Author:Miller, Reuben JonathanSummary:
Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and later a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners to understand the lifelong burden that a single arrest can entail. His work revealed that...
- Author:McCoy, TedSummary:
Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada's most notorious prison. In...
- Author:Comack, ElizabethSummary:
Published some two decades ago, Elizabeth Comack's Women in Trouble explored the connections between the women's abuse histories and their law violations as well as their experience of imprisonment in an aged facility. What...
- Author:Jones, ElSummary:
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism...
- Author:Richie, Beth, Meiners, Erica R., Davis, Angela Y.Summary:
From divesting from the police to halting new jails, abolition shapes our political moment. The authors show how abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence.
-
Author:Range, Peter RossSummary:Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup...
