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Life sentences : rage and survival behind bars / [edited by] Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg.
- Title
- Life sentences : rage and survival behind bars / [edited by] Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Times Books, c1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV 9475.L22 L647 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing on their award-winning reporting for the Louisiana State Penitentiary's uncensored newsmagazine, The Angolite, Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg present the stark reality of life behind bars and the human, political, and fiscal costs of our long-running war on crime. Annotation. Drawing on their award-winning reporting for the Louisiana State Penitentiary's uncensored newsmagazine, The Angolite, Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg present the stark reality of life behind bars and the human, political, and fiscal costs of our long-running war on crime.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-322) and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Farrar legacy ; the legend of leadbelly -- Angola's history ; Phelps: five years later ; Conversations with the dead ; The sexual jungle ; The escape of nigger Joe ; The dynamics of parole ; The fiscal crunch ; dying in prison ; Maggio retires ; The wall of reality ; butler's park ; The pelican protector ; A labor of love ; The long-termers ; Hollywood comes to Angola ; The omen ; Prisonomics -- house of the damned ; The deadliest prosecutor ; The horror show ; The deathmen (continued).
- ISBN
- 0812920481
- LCCN
- ^^^91041173^
- OCLC
- 24909973
- SCSB-10022785
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library