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A Deputy Warden's Reflections on Prison Work
This book is a picture of prison life from the inside. It illustrates prison life as, at turns, exciting, surprising, distressing and, often, amusing. Each day is different, and anyone who walks through a prison gate had better be alert. It tells of the small human dramas that play out daily among staff, prisoners, and others who enter this gated world. It calls the reader to see that justice begins by seeing each person, staff or prisoner, as an individual with his or her own story. The passion of the author is to portray prison life as continuous with life in broader society. In prisons, we meet the same cast of characters, the same temptations, the same dangers, and the same rewards as on the outside. Rather than regarding prisons as separate worlds, we should regard them as extensions of the society in which we live. This is important because there is a continuous flow between prisons and the broader society. Those who go to prison usually return to society. Understanding how prisons work will help us as we consider how to reintegrate former prisoners into our society. As the author argues, this is difficult but important work.
Alcatraz Screw
Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison at Sandstone, Minnesota. A few years later he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Badly wounded at Iwo Jima, he returned to Sandstone after a long rehabilitation. When the Bureau of Prisons closed Sandstone in 1947, Gregory was transferred to Alcatraz, which had been a federal penitentiary since 1934. For the next fifteen years, Gregory worked on “The Rock.” He takes the reader along on a correctiona...
Not On My Watch
How one man became one of the most notable and progressive prison reformers of our time.
Place-ing the Prison Officer
The prison officer as a sadistic 'warder' is an all-too-familiar figure, not just in the British literary and cultural imagination. Even with regard to the modern prison environment, officers are still frequently conflated with the jailers of the 'old prison', trailing the smell of the dungeon behind them; they function as scapegoats in compensation for society's guilty conscience towards the imprisoned, or they are utilised in fiction geared towards prison reform. The present book contests prison officers' misrepresentation by drawing attention to counter-discursive examples. Deploying and developing spatial and cognitive narratological frameworks, it examines prison literature that lends a voice to prison officers and/or grants them a complex fictional representation. A general history of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion not only of contemporary prison officer memoirs, but also of fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean.
Peterhead
Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling "Barlinnie Story" and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge' on the town's wild, storm-battered coast, it became what some call Scotland's gulag. A cold and brutal place, it has held down the years some of Scotland's most violent criminals and most infamous prisoners, convicted of the most heinous of crimes. In the early days, convicts were controlled by men as hard as their charges. The wardens carried swords and were quick to use them if necessary. And wh...
Prisoners Their Own Warders
This work presents a concise account of the system pursued in the old Singapore jail. The writers traced the history of the convict establishments in all the penal settlements, showing the progress in the prisons until a system of organization and discipline had been satisfactorily attained at the headquarters jail in Singapore. Contents include: Early Records of Bencoolen and Observations About Convicts A Slight Sketch of Penang and the Treatment of the Convicts There Old Malacca and the First Introduction of Convicts There A Running History of Singapore: Its Jail System and Administration Singapore Division Into Classes, Traders, Food, and Clothing Public Works and Industries Stories About Indian Convicts and European Local Prisoners Abolition of the Convict Department and Disposal of the Convicts Diseases and Malingering Conclusion
On the Other Side of the Bars
When we got there, we saw helicopters and smoke coming from the burning buildings. We saw a large number of inmates, many clinging to a fence. We witnessed National Guard troops inside the prison with their weapons, marching in step to their posts. We saw guardsmen on top of the walls and on top of buildings. I never thought that I would end up working there, much less as the warden, some eighteen years later. Author Dan Reynolds has written an enthralling account of a decades-long career in Oklahoma corrections. In On the Other Side of the Bars, he spills his heart about everything from how it felt to live through his first execution as a warden after only ninety days on the job to the joyfully uplifting moments of seeing the wisdom of experience bear fruit. For those considering entering a career in corrections, he also details the most critical components of a safe and secure prison for staff to work in—and inmates to live in. Learn how it feels to have to deal head on with a riot, and discover why the author is mentioned in a John Grisham book.
Images of Incarceration
An analysis of the impact of TV on the democratic processes that lead to criminal policy making - Everthing from 'The Shawshank Redemption' to the TV sit-com; how public perceptions of serious social issues are often based on superficial, misleading and sometimes comfortable accounts.
