Doing Time Online

Download or read book Doing Time Online written by Jan Siebold and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004-2005 Maude Hart Lovelace Book Award Master List 2004-2005 Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Reading List 2004 Maryland Children's Book Award Master List 2003-2004 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List 2004-2005 Volunteer State Book Award Master List 2004-2005 Iowa Children's Choice Award Master List 2005 Sequoyah Children's Book Award Master List 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List 2003-2004 Great Stone Face Award Master List 2004-2005 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Master List 2005 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List Twelve-year-old Mitchell got involved with the wrong kid this past summer, and the prank they played led to an elderly woman's injury. Now he finds himself at the police station—his "sentence" is to chat online with a nursing home resident twice a week for the next month. Mitch isn't thrilled; what could he and some "old" person possibly talk about? But Mitch’s new online friend has a personality all her own. Her name is Wootie Hayes, and she has plenty to talk about: how she got her name, how much she misses her own home, and how she detests bingo. But she also wants to know about Mitch’s situation. Without expecting it, they help each other face the truth and begin a new friendship in the process.

Download or read book We're All Doing Time written by Bo Lozoff and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bo Lozoff is the director of Human Kindness Foundation and its internationally acclaimed Prison-Ashram Project. His writings, workshops, and tapes have helped countless people transform their lives into sacred practice even in some of our worst prisons -- prisons of selfishness, fear, anger, and addiction as well as bars and steel.

Download or read book Doing Time written by Bell Gale Chevigny and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing.

Download or read book Indefinite written by Michael L. Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indefinite is the first major ethnographic study of American jails since the advent of racialized mass incarceration. The author was confined in a southern California county jail system during which time, he conducted what he calls an organic ethnography of jail life. The resulting study is an investigation of the vagaries of jail living, the relationship between custodial deputies and penal residents, the endurance strategies residents employed to protect their emotional selves from being overwhelmed by the nature of jail punishment, and consequences of extremes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and penal time. Indefinite toggles between what is peculiar to jail time and what is familiar in broader social life to develop general concepts, sensitizing schemes, and theories about social life that expand beyond the specifics of jail without reducing jail to a mere case study"--

Download or read book Doing Time in the Depression written by Ethan Blue and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world—overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California’s penal systems. Each element of prison life—from numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular culture to crushing pain from illness or violence—demonstrated a contest between keepers and the kept. From the moment they arrived to the day they would leave, inmates struggled over the meanings of race and manhood, power and poverty, and of the state itself. In this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century.

Download or read book Doing Time Together written by Megan Comfort and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America’s massive prison system, Comfort’s book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.

Download or read book Doing Time written by A. R. Johnson and published by Correctional Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doing Time" opens the prison doors to take you on a journey behind the razorwire through the genuine gritty reality of life "Inside". Follow a light-hearted and often hilarious guide as you learn to see and navigate the scenes of incarceration from angles you didn't even know were there. A must-read for those currently "Inside" or with a loved one serving time, true crime fans, and anyone interested in criminal justice.