The Prisoners' World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge
- ISBN-10
- 0739129155
- ISBN-13
- 9780739129159
- Category
- Prison sentences
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Authors
- William Tregea, Marjorie Larmour
Description
The Prisoners' World seeks to make the "prisoners' voice" come alive for regular college classroom students via author narrative essays as well as over sixty prisoner essays that shed light into prisoner experiences in California and Michigan penitentiaries.
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