Undoing Time American Prisoners in Their Own Words

Name: Undoing Time American Prisoners in Their Own Words
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ISBN: 9781555534585

ISBN-10: 1555534589

ISBN-13: 9781555534585

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeff Evans, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Craig W. Haney

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Culled from more than four hundred submissions nationwide, the thirty-six pieces here represent works by a broad spectrum of prisoners: young and old, unknown and infamous, minimum security check forgers and death row inmates. The authors include notorious "Preppie Murderer" Robert Chambers; an elderly truck driver who strangled the woman he professed to love; and a gang member recalling his violent street life. All talk in their own uncensored words about themselves and their families, about their motives and personal demons, about committing crime and doing time. Just as this collection gives prisoners the rare chance to communicate who they are and what went wrong, it also gives the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Back in the Dayz


1937



The Mystery of Aunt Lilly



The Chicken



110th Street



Where I Come From



Invisible



I Killed My Wife



Turned Out



A Shot in the Dark



Back in the Dayz



Martha



End of the Game



Years without Days


Revolving Door



From From the Inside Out



Danny



Another Day



Reflections from Death Row



What It's Like Being a Drag Queen in the Illinois Department of Corrections



Prison Break Memoirs



Grief behind Bars



Christmas: Present



What Happened to Your Message?



Upon Completing Twenty Years



Salvation


Notes from Life and Death



The Ice Man Speaks



One Hundred Soldiers



A Part of Me Set Free



The Prison Pump



Freedom from Within



Hired at the Last Hour



When Student Teaches Teacher



Prison as Monastery



Jaye's Story



Salvation



Reunion



The Tale of a Kite



Afterword



Editor and Contributors