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Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A searing expose of the effects of mass incarceration on the families of those locked up - including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent in jail - told through the stories of three families struggling to live the best lives they can within the confines of a brutal system"--
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Language
English
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Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other...
4) Recidivism
Series
Publisher
Colorado Office of State Planning and Budgeting
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 PDF (2 p. ; 41 KB)
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
You land in prison in your twenties, faced with the likelihood of spending the rest of your life behind the wall. What do you do? Danner Darcleight started writing. He writes about what he sees, what he has done, and the toll that his own past actions have exacted. Concrete Carnival brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day-to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living...
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers are introduced to some of the canines that participate in the Puppies Behind Bars program, which teaches prison inmates to raise puppies and train them to work as service dogs for people living with disabilities.
10) Offender search
Publisher
[Colorado Dept. of Corrections]
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 Webpage.
Language
English
Description
Database of inmates and parolees in the Department of Corrections system. Searchable by DOCNO, last name, first name, and date of birth. Searches can be limited by gender. Link to death row roster and information.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Story of how a little boy survives and thrives with the love of his family as he waits for his father's unjust incarceration to come to trial for over five years of his life as of 2015.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
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English
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Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the New York Tribune, were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent twenty months in horrific Confederate prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus many moments of antic comedy. They must endure the Confederacy's most...
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English
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On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb's victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became the first to enter the Allied POW camps, which rivaled Nazi camps for cruelty and bested them for
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English
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Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. New York City was the principal base of the Crown's...
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