Research Catalog

Title

Behind bars : surviving prison / Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards.

Author

Ross, Jeffrey Ian.

Publication

Indianapolis, IN : Alpha Books, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Richards, Stephen C.

Description

xv, 219 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

[This book] breaks down the bars on prison survival with a hard look at the realities of incarceration. -Back cover.

Subject

• Prison administration > United States
• Prison violence > United States
• Prisoners > United States > Life skills guides
• Prisoners > United States > Social conditions

Genre/Form

Life skills guides.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. You're under arrest. Busted! -- Four fatal legal mistakes (and how to avoid them) -- pt. 2. You've got jail. Big houses, dog pens, and gladiator schools : the U.S. prison system -- Hacks, cops, and cons : who's who in prison -- pt. 3. Doing time. Ju7gged : welcome to prison -- Don't drop the soap : sex in the slammer -- My baloney has a first name : food in prison -- License plates and GEDs : work and school in prison -- Blood in, Blood out : prison gangs and violence -- Brother can you spare some time : a day in the life of Joe Convict -- We ain't no debutantes : women behind bars -- pt. 4. Beyond the walls. Happy days are here again : getting out -- Revolving doors : fixing the incarceration machine -- Appendixes. Slammer slang : a glossary -- We understand, son : prison reform advocacy groups.

ISBN

0028643518

LCCN

^^2002103794

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library