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125) Correction
Publisher
Michael Mulcahy
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Correction follows four recruits through the Arizona Department of Corrections seven-week training academy, and then through their first eight months within the state prison system. By exploring the complex relationship between correctional officer and prison inmate, this compelling one-hour documentary tells a story about power, justice and the American prison system.
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 5
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
133) The bezzle
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
Author
Series
North Texas crime and criminal justice volume no. 10
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation's first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the prison system, and convict leasing, as well as important figures in Texas penology including Marshall Lee Simmons, O.B. Ellis, and George J. Beto, and the...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian"--
Weber provides a groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe. From wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century to the present, he reveals how the deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject populations is written into our national DNA. Weber also uncovers a surprising...