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Author Hassine, Victor, 1955-

Title Life without parole : living in prison today / Victor Hassine ; foreword by John Irwin.

Imprint Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub. Co., c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  365.6 H278Bh 1999    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed. / edited by Thomas J. Bernard, Richard McCleary, Richard A. Wright.
Description xvii, 181 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169).
Contents How I became a convict -- Things missed -- Playing the opposites -- Prison violence -- The underground economy -- Prison politics -- Race relations in prison -- Saying goodbye -- David : a sexual victim -- Chaser : a medication addict -- Toney : an AIDS tragedy -- Albert Brown : a permanent resident -- Jacko : surviving the hole -- Coach : a changeling -- The dancing man -- Prison overcrowding -- Prison rape -- Relationships between inmates and guards -- A theory of prison evolution -- Conclusion : the runaway train.
Subject Hassine, Victor, 1955-
Graterford State Correctional Institution.
Prisoners -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies.
Life imprisonment -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies.
Prisons -- Pennsylvania -- Case studies.
Added Author Bernard, Thomas J.
McCleary, Richard.
Wright, Richard A. (Richard Alan), 1953-
ISBN 1891487132 (alk. paper)

 
    
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