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Decades Behind Bars

Autor Gaye Holman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2017
More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind. Beginning in 1994, the author began recording the personal stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men candidly discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and to be confined for perhaps the remainder of their lives. Their stories are balanced by conversations with correctional officers, prison administrators, chaplains and parole board members. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system.
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ISBN-13: 9781476669236
ISBN-10: 1476669236
Pagini: 277
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: MCFARLAND & CO INC

Notă biografică

Gaye D. Holman is a retired professor of sociology. For several decades she taught within correctional facilities in the Louisville, Kentucky, area and coordinated her college's degree program there. She remains involved in efforts in Louisville to help ex-offenders re-enter society.

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More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons - one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-term imprisonment devours state budgets, adversely affects community well-being and skews our collective moral compass. This study examines the human costs of keeping the convicted out of sight, out of mind.