Title The prisoners' world : portraits of convicts caught in the incarceration binge / William Tregea and Marjorie Larmour.

Publication Info.	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Issues in crime & justice
	Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-339) and index.
Contents	Historical periods of prisoners' worlds -- Premises of the incarceration binge culture -- Prison binge growth theory -- Families and home -- Pathways to prison -- Getting into "the system" -- Cells -- Daily work routine -- Correctional officers -- Prisoner free time -- The homosexual prisoner -- Drugs and contraband in prison -- Michigan Reformatory : young blacks caught in Detroit's incarceration binge drug sweeps, 1987-1994 -- Detroit's inner city : critique by black youth prisoners (under twenty-five) at Michigan Reformatory -- Inner city experiences : black prisoners over twenty-five at Jackson State Prison, 1990-2000 -- Cocaine and addictive deadly crack in Detroit's inner city -- Guns in the inner city -- Prisoners' views on system and reentry -- The end of the incarceration binge?
Note	Print version record.
Summary	The Prisoners' World seeks to make the 'prisoners' voice' come alive for regular college classroom students via author narrative essays as well as over sixty prisoner essays that shed light into prisoner experiences in California and Michigan penitentiaries.
Subject	Prisoners -- California -- Social conditions.
	Prisoners -- California -- Biography.
	Prisoners -- Michigan -- Social conditions.
	Prisoners -- Michigan -- Biography.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
	Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
	Prisoners -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01077200
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	Michigan. (OCoLC)fst01208387
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author	Larmour, Marjorie, 1920-2007.
Other Form:	Print version: Tregea, William, 1944- Prisoners' world. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739129159 0739129155 (DLC) 2008047176 (OCoLC)272304711
ISBN	9780739132555 (electronic bk.)
	0739132555 (electronic bk.)

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