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December 29, 2006 06:12 PM EST --
Approximately 30 years ago, a young beautiful woman traveled to Walpole, a maximum security prison in Massachusetts, to visit with me. I had been preparing for this moment for several days, haircut, clean . . .
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September 06, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
Asha Bandele
Scribner (1999) 219 pages
ISBN 0-684-85073-7
Although the brutality of prison can never be thoroughly examined from afar, our society has painted a clear picture of the draconian dungeon. . . .
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September 06, 2006 08:15 PM EDT --
Henry Louis Gates
Albert A. Knopf
216 pages 1994
Colored People is not a story solely about race, although racism is exhibited throughout the memoir. Written for his two daughters, Henry Louis . . .
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August 14, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
by Michael Eric Dyson
2001 ISBN 0-465-01755X
Basic Civitas Books 292 pages
Book . . .
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August 14, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
BOOK REVIEW
Aeeshah Ababio-Clottey
Kokomon Clottey
H. J. Kramer
1998; 213 pages
ISBN 0-915811-82-0
Racial healing is a subject very few people want to discuss in an open forum. Even though conflict . . .
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July 06, 2006 07:48 PM EDT --
(Written 2001)
As a child, I remember the importance of voting in my family household. Both parents were active in civic organization and community activities, while working regular jobs and raising . . .
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July 06, 2006 07:33 PM EDT --
Manuel Alvares:
Un Hombre Bueno Murio Joven
(Written March 2000)
Several days before Christmas, Manuel Alvares left the Bay State Correctional Center in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization . . .
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July 06, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
Thanksgiving 2004. Another opportunity to bring together family members and old-school relationships for a wonderful meal. It's a customary and normal gathering of like minds. There are people who . . .
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July 06, 2006 07:17 PM EDT --
Superpredators:
The Demonization Of Our Children By The Law
Peter Elikann
Insight Books 242 pages
ISBN 0 306 46007 6
In the sixties, there was a war on poverty to combat urban decay and to create . . .
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June 27, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
Outlaws of America
The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
By Dan Berger (2006)
AK Press 432 pages
ISBN 190485941-0
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June 27, 2006 09:37 PM EDT --
Prison Journal
Joseph Timilty
Northeastern University Press
253 pages (1997)
The concept and practice of overcharging is not new or unique to the criminal justice system in Massachusetts. It is very . . .
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June 27, 2006 09:23 PM EDT --
Introduction
The purpose of this project is to identify the origin of violence and to explore its impact upon the individual, a community and society. Human beings learn about violence in many ways and . . .
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May 30, 2006 08:00 PM EDT --
Prison and Sentencing in Massachusetts, published by Mass Inc., recommends that prison construction should continue to build a minimum bed for every new medium cell. The state prison population, an estimated . . .
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May 28, 2006 12:02 AM EDT --
Nathan McCall
Random House; 1994
Recent statistics from the U.S. Justice Department reveal that black males represent more than half the prison population. There are more African-American men in prison . . .
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May 27, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
J. Jeffries McWhirter, Benedict T. McWhirter, Anna M. McWhirter, Ellen Hawley McWhirter
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company 1998 363 pages
ISBN 0-534-34580-8
Anyone interested in the welfare . . .
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May 27, 2006 11:52 PM EDT --
Vivien Stern
Northeastern University Press 1998 407 pages
ISBN 1-55553-362-0
What is the purpose of prison? This is the primary question that Vivien Stern will echo throughout the book. Depending upon . . .
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May 27, 2006 10:27 PM EDT --
Corrections empire, policies such as mandatory sentences, the elimination of good-time deductions, and the use of private vendors in service contracts were introduced. The rate of parole continued to decline . . .
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May 13, 2006 11:07 PM EDT --
Here it comes! 2005! I have another opportunity to think about all the things I want to change, even challenge, in my life. Every year I go through this routine. I usually select a quiet moment . . .
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May 10, 2006 07:00 PM EDT --
As a child, I was often told that I was much like my father. So I watched the way you walked, talked and interacted with others. You were a leader of men and I've often heard references of "Mr. . . .
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May 09, 2006 06:56 PM EDT --
The original prison in America was designed to confine and isolate the criminal violator from law abiding citizens. Within the confines of those dreary concrete and steel perimeters, two different systems . . .
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