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  • I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine

    Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

    by David Chura ...
    Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent, according to a 2007 survey by the Campaign for Youth. Since 1992, every state except Nebraska has passed ... Read more

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  • Hometown Killer

    Child KillerSpringfield, Ohio was an All-American town. A town rocked in 1992 by the discovery of two adolescent girls, brutally raped and murdered. Investigators soon learned that four local misfits had been accomplices. Yet DNA tests proved that the true culprit was still on the loose.Deadly DeceiverInexplicably, the four men continued to mislead police throughout the years of the investigation, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Hard Time

    Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail

    by Shaun Attwood ...
    Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door. Attwood found himself on remand in Maricopa Jail with a $750,000 cash bond and all of his assets seized. The nightmare was only just beginning as he was submerged in a jail in which rival gangs vied for control, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Newjack

    Guarding Sing Sing

    by Ted Conover ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing.“Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World**When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State ... Read more

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  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Read more

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  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Read more

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  • The Death of Punishment

    Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst

    For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Burning Down the House

    The End of Juvenile Prison

    The nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist“Nell Bernstein’s book could be for juvenile justice what Rachel Carson’s book was for the environmental movement.” —Andrew Cohen, correspondent, ABC NewsWhen teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they ... Read more

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  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

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  • A Punitive Society

    Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand

    by John Pratt ...
    Series Book 10 - BWB Texts
    New Zealand has one of the highest levels of imprisonment in the Western world. Yet the growth of imprisonment in New Zealand has occurred when the crime rate here, as in most other Western societies, has been in significant decline. Why, then, the disjuncture?In this penetrating BWB Text, John Pratt describes the dramatic transformation in penal thought that has recently taken place in this ... Read more

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  • Curious Punishments Of Bygone Days

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Excerpt: "In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume. The subject is not a pleasant one, though it ... Read more

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  • I Call My Brothers

    Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A car has exploded. A city has been crippled by fear. Amor wanders around the city, doing his best to blend in. He's going to exchange a drill head. He's going to call his brothers. He's going to stop stalking Valeria and take care of his long-since-dead grandma. Most important of all: he must not attract any suspicious glances. But what is normal behaviour? Who is a potential perpetrator? And how ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD