Incident at San Quentin
Author | : Daniel P. Scarborough |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1434912612 |
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Author | : Daniel P. Scarborough |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1434912612 |
Author | : Hobart Melvin Banks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Prison violence |
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Author | : Kenneth Church Lamott |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2018-12-05 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1789126010 |
First published in 1961, writing Chronicles of San Quentin was first suggested to Kenneth Lamott during a spell as a teacher at that California prison in the 1950’s. The book not only chronicles the history and highlights of one of America’s most famous penitentiaries, but it also reflects the changes in prisons in the U.S. over the last 100 years. Calmly informing us that there were over 4,000 murders in California between 1849-1855, Lamott quickly justifies the terrible need the state had for prisons other than lax, badly run county and city jails. But San Quentin itself, which started as a floating prison hulk, was little better. Here are its famous prisoners, riots and escapes, its floggings and brutalities, its executions too. With the coming of the “New Era” penology in the 1890’s, the change to more humane and rational treatment of prisoners is shown. The Clinton Duffy era is dealt with at great length—its shortcomings are shown along with its humane virtues—and prison life including the Chessman execution, is portrayed with sympathy and understanding. A highly readable book.
Author | : Carole Lee LaCombe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : African American criminals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William J. Drummond |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520298365 |
San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
Author | : Earl Smith |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476777780 |
A riveting, behind-the-bars look at one of America's most feared prisons: San Quentin-- by a minister to the lost souls sitting on death row. Himself a former criminal, Smith shares the most important lessons he's learned from years of helping inmates discover God's plan for them. Their stories show us that it is still possible to find God's grace and mercy from behind bars, and that it's never too late to turn our lives around.
Author | : Lori B. Andrews |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781566397506 |
Originally published in hardcover to much acclaim, this vividly written biographical drama will now be available in a paperback edition and includes a new epilogue by the author. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Spain was born (as Larry Michael Armstrong) in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. Spain's life story speaks to the destructive power of racial bias. Even if his mother's husband were willing to accept the boy-which he was not-a mixed-race child inevitably would come to harm in that place and time. At six years old, already the target of name-calling children and threatening adults, he could not attend school with his older brother. Only decades later would he be told why the Armstrongs sent him to live with a black family in Los Angeles. As Johnny came of age, he thought of himself as having been rejected by his white family as well as by his black peers. His erratic, destructive behavior put him on a collision course with the penal system; he was only seventeen when convicted of murder and sent to Soledad. Drawn into the black power movement and the Black Panther Party by a fellow inmate, the charismatic George Jackson, Spain became a dynamic force for uniting prisoners once divided by racial hatred. He committed himself to the cause of prisoners' rights, impressing inmates, prison officials, and politicians with his intelligence and passion. Nevertheless, among the San Quentin Six, only he was convicted of conspiracy after Jackson's failed escape attempt. Lori Andrews, a professor of law, vividly portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Spain's personal transformation is the heart of the book, but Andrews frames it within an indictment of intolerance and injustice that gives this individual's story broad significance. Author note: Lori Andrewsteaches at Chicago-Kent Law School and has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by theNational Law Journal. One of the foremost experts on the policy of genetics and reproduction, she is author ofThe Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology.
Author | : George Jackson |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1994-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1613742894 |
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
Author | : Malcolm Braly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 9780316106146 |
Author | : Donald Lowrie |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The account of Donald Lowrie's 10 years in San Quentin after being convicted of burglary.