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Dealing with the injustice in the court system that affects those incarcerated, Mr. Woods gives us an up-close look at the life of a repeated felon, being that he has been in and out of the system since the age of twelve. Minus the fact Mr. Woods is currently incarcerated and serving a life sentence, he was still able to supply us with an educational and factual book that gives us a graphic vision of what our court systems and prisons are like, growing...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment" (1898) by Edward Bellamy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
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This is a precept Bible study on the book of Acts, which means you will be looking at the Bible one verse at a time to understand God's Word so that you can apply it to your daily life.
The four Gospels described Jesus's life and ended with His death and resurrection. The book of Acts continues HIS-story after the resurrection and follows the transition from the Old Covenant into the New Covenant, where the Holy Spirit came to live in the heart of...
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BROKEN is the title to explore for readers intrigued by self-exploration and expanding their understanding of humanity. This work of literature is comprehensible throughout anyone's level of spiritual development. BROKEN became designed to be relatable and easy to understand while packing a wallop of conscious thought throughout each chapter. This work of literature begins by first breaking down your understanding of yourself and your higher selves....
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In 1993, Andrew Brunson was asked to travel to Turkey, the largest evangelized country in the world, to serve as a missionary. Though hesitant because of the daunting and dangerous task that lay ahead, Andrew and his wife, Norine, believed this was God's plan for them. What followed was a string of threats and attacks, but also successes in starting new churches in a place where many people had never met a Christian. As their work with refugees from...
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In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of "get tough on crime" attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from "three strikes" and "a war on drugs," to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass...
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When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U. S. military for more than three years before being released without charge in January of 2005. His memoir is the first published account by a Guantánamo...
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"One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians" Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is associate professor of history at Cornell University.
The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped...
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How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should apply to the way imprisonment is used? Providing a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this new work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. With commentary from its well-known,...
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As we move along in this century, many of us as men and women have encountered some type of destructible traits in our lives, whether it may be turmoil, adversity, mental illness, persecution, or even slavery.
In fact, many of us of our loved ones will suffer from these destructible traits while being incarcerated physically with the ability to gain a imprison mind. While on the other hand, those who are in the free world can also be in prison, not...
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Mary Matsuda is a typical 16-year-old girl living on Vashon Island, Washington with her family. On December 7, 1942, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and Mary's life changes forever. Mary and her brother, Yoneichi, are U.S. citizens, but they are imprisoned, along with their parents, in a Japanese-American internment camp. Mary endures an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps, struggling for survival and dignity. Mary wonders...
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xviii, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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"Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawaiʻi's Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawaiʻi Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during WWII--from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during that war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-WWII conditions and current 21st century anti-immigrant...
17) The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
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In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty years he suffered under one of the most brutal...
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"To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in matching outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history. For years, David and Louise had kept their children in increasing isolation, trapping them in a sinister world of torture,...
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This is a factual story of a young American civilian imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese when they conquered Hong Kong. In a foreword by General Russell Hearn, who was instrumental in organizing the quasi-military Flying Tigers, there is an interesting personal reaction to the events described in the book in which he states for the record that "I believe there is no race of people on this earth quite as treacherous as the Japanese. Theirs is a...
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WE SURVIVED WARS CRUCIBLEA true Story of Imprisonment and RescueIn World War II PhilippinesA large pit is ready for the mass execution of 2,147 prisoners in the Los Baos concentration camp. At dawn, paratroopers of the 11th Airborne drop from the sky. Filipino guerillas overpower Japanese guards. During the night, fifty-four amphibious tractors have crossed the large lake, around Japanese lines. They arrive, and take all the prisoners to safety. It...
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