An Art Of Small Resurrections

Surviving The Texas Death Chamber - Php 408

BY WALTER LONG
Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies and to forgive. How can these messages of compassion be reconciled with a policy of putting to death those whom we have judged to be wrongdoers against society? Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, says that they cannot. He wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. He explores the impact of a particular execution of great renown - the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth - and looks for his own understanding of that event and of the man and his message.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 36 PP. Paper

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Beyond Bars

Rejoining Society After Prison

BY JEFFREY IAN ROSS, STEPHEN RICHARDS
Useful for Quaker Meetings that work with prisoners. Beyond Bars is the most current, practical, and comprehensive guide for ex-convicts and their families about managing a successful reentry into the community and includes; Tips on how to prepare for release while still in Prison; Ways to deal with family members, especially spouses and children; Finding a job; Money issues such as budgets, bank accounts, taxes, and debt; Avoiding drugs and other illicit activities; Free resources to rely on for support.

Alpha Books 2009 221 PP. Paper

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Beyond Prisons

A New Interfaith Paradigm

BY LAURA MAGNANI AND HARMON WRAY
This strong indictment of the current prison system, undertaken by two respected experts on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, traces the history and features of our penal system, offers strong ethical and moral assessments of it, and lays out a whole new paradigm of criminal justice based on restorative justice and reconciliation. The book puts forward a 12-point plan for immediate changes. Magnani and Wray offer a truly radical analysis that penetrates to the roots of the crisis, challenges long-held assumptions, and imagines thoughtful alternatives. AFSC.

Fortress Press 2006 208 PP. Paper

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Beyond The Bars

A Quaker Primer For Prison Visitors - Php 342

BY KEITH MADDOCK
"I simply hope these reflections on my experience as a prison visitor will encourage others to consider serving in this difficult but very enriching ministry." Guidelines, both spiritual and practical, for the Quaker prison visitor.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 33 PP. Paper

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Changing Paradigms

Punishment And Restorative Discipline Prison Work & Restorative Justice

BY PAUL REDEKOP
Paul Redekop taps more than 20 years of experience in restorative justice to conclude that the practice of punishment is a major obstacle to healthy societies, families, and schools. Punishment is so damaging to relationships, especially in children, that it should be reassessed on philosophical, spiritual, religious grounds, Redekop argues. It should be replaced with restorative discipline, and societies should move toward a punishment-free justice system.

Good Books 2007 293 PP. Paper

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The Church Of The Second Chance

A Faith-based Approach To Prison Reform

BY JENS SOERING
Jens Soering, who has been in prison for more than 20 years for a murder he claims he didn't commit, shows that, despite committing theft, murder, even terrorism, figures like Moses, Samson, and Paul were raised to places of honor in what we might call the 'Church of the Second Chance.' The stories of these biblical outlaws can help solve a social crisis that has been building for over 30 years: the problem of America's prisons. Each chapter begins with a Bible study, goes on to examine a crucial problem besetting our jails and penitentiaries, and ends with an interview that demonstrates how people are working today, in and out of prison, to apply God's word to our own lives and times.

Lantern 2008 326 PP. Paper

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The Death Of Innocents

An Eyewitness Account Of Wrongful Executions

BY HELEN PREJEAN
Sister Helen Prejean traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states. She also raises profound constitutional questions about an appeals system that decides most death cases on procedural grounds without ever examining their merits. To date, well over one hundred wrongfully convicted persons have been freed from death row. If constitutional protections - due process, assistance of counsel, and equal justice under law - are truly being respected, how is it possible that these people were convicted in the first place?

Vintage 2006 336 PP. Paper

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Don't Kill In Our Names

Families Of Murder Victims Speak Out Against The Death Penalty

BY RACHEL KING
SECOND HAND COPY -tatty in dustjacket. The people whose stories appear in this book have chosen to forgive their loved ones' murderers, and many have developed personal relationships with the killers and have even worked to save their lives. They have formed a nationwide group, Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), to oppose the death penalty. MVFR members are often treated as either saints or lunatics, but the truth is that they are neither. They are ordinary people who have responded to an extraordinary and devastating tragedy with courage and faith, choosing reconciliation over retribution, healing over hatred.

Rutgers University Press 2003 284 PP. Cloth

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Finding Freedom

Writings From Death Row

BY JARVIS JAY MASTERS
Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate - told against a background of extreme violence and aggression. Masters' commitment to nonviolence leads him more and more into the role of peacemaker as he tries to put compassion into action. We see Masters meditating amid chaos and squalor, touching the hearts and minds of those around him.

Padma Publishing 1997 179 PP. Paper

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Forgiving Justice

The 2000 Swarthmore Lecture, By The Quaker Governor Of Grendon Prison

BY TIM NEWELL
This book calls for a return to the consideration of spiritual values in the dynamics of community justice. What place has prison in our attempts to live the kingdom here on earth? This essay presents a detailed assessment of the British penal system and Friends testimony on criminal justice for today.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2000 120 PP. Paper

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Frontiers Of Justice- Coddling Or Common Sense?

Frontiers Of Justice, Volume 2

BY CLAUDIA WHITMAN, JULIE ZIMMERMAN, TEKLA MILLER
Volume 2 of this series looks at how, by our efforts to avoid "coddling" prisoners, we cut the programs that would most likely benefit them and society at large. The authors in this anthology range from volunteers to professionals in all areas of the criminal justice system. it is possible to preserve the dignity of victim, offender, criminal and country.

Biddle Pub. Co 1998 383 PP Paper

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Insiders Art

The Context Collection Of Artists In Prison

EDITED BY JILL BENOWITZ, TIMM DUNN AND BARBARA HIRSHKOWITZ
Inspired by the incredible work that pours forth from imprisoned artists with limited or no access to art supplies, Insiders Art is a collection of images and words by over 100 prisoners. Evolved from the prison book program, Books Through Bars, which sends quality reading material to pris-oners around the United States, Contexts solicited art on the theme of life in prison. The work included is vibrant and powerful, giving us a glimpse of confinement and the longing for freedom.

Books Through Bars 2000 80 PP. Blank

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The Little Book Of Biblical Justice

BY CHRIS MARSHALL
This book identifies characteristic features of the Bible's teaching on justice and addresses the many complexities that surround it. It also explores the Bible's shaping effect on Western political and judicial thought.

Good Books 2005 88 PP. Paper

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The Little Book Of Victim Offender Conferencing

Bringing Victims And Offenders Together In Dialogue

BY LORRAINE STUTZMAN AMSTUTZ
Victim offender dialogues have been developed as a way to hold offenders accountable to the person they have harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right. Rooted in the practices of native peoples, "conferencing" addresses victims' discomfort with the idea of "reconciliation." It avoids the connotation that victims may negotiate their losses when they hear the term "mediation." "Conferencing" acknowledges the participatory nature of the process. And it gives flexibility about who is included, making room for members of the larger community if appropriate. A useful little book on restorative justice.

Good Books 2007 80 PP. Paper

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The Little Book Of Restorative Justice

BY HOWARD ZEHR
A primer on the idea of restorative justice, with helpful illustrations, tables, and lists.

Good Books 2002 76 PP. Paper

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The Little Book Of Family Group Conferences

A Hopeful Approach When Youth Cause Harm

BY ALLAN MACRAE AND HOWARD ZEHR
Since their introduction in New Zealand, Family Group Conferences have been adopted and adapted in many places throughout the world. They have been applied in many arenas including child welfare, school discipline, and criminal justice, both juvenile and adult. In fact family group conferences have emerged as one of the most promising models of restorative justice. This little book describes the basics and rationale for this approach to juvenile justice, as well as how to conduct a family group conference.

Good Books 2004 76 PP. Paper

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The Little Book Of Circle Processes

A New/old Approach To Peacemaking

BY KAY PRANIS
Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems. This peacemaking practice draws on the ancient Native American tradition of a talking piece and combines that with concepts of democracy and inclusivity. Peacemaking circles are used in neighborhoods to provide support for those harmed by crime and to decide sentences for those who commit crime, in schools to create positive classroom climate and resolve behavior problems, as well as in the workplace and in social services. The circle process hinges on storytelling.

Good Books 2005 80 PP Paper

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Lockdown America

Police And Prisons In The Age Of Crisis

BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. Written in accessible and vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Verso Press 2000 320 PP. Paper

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Lucasville

The Untold Story Of A Prison Uprising

BY STAUGHTON LYND
In 1993 prisoners took control of the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Their 11-day ordeal started with a dispute between the warden and Muslim prisoners and ended with a negotiated settlement, but only after nine prisoners and one hostage had been killed. In the months that followed, leaders of the uprising were singled out by the state, tried, and sentenced to death despite compelling evidence of their innocence. Lucasville tells the inside story of the uprising, the subsequent trial and sentencing. Eminent historian and lawyer (and Friend) Staughton Lynd brings the full power of evidence to bear as he retells the Lucasville story.

Temple University Press 2004 244 PP. Paper

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The New Jim Crow Hardcover

Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness

BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER
Former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community - and all of us - to place confronting mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. suggested price $27.95 Our price $25.15

New Press 2010 290 PP. Cloth

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No Royal Road To Reconciliation

Php 321

BY GENE KNUDSEN-HOFFMAN
This essay proposes that we can heal the victim and the perpetrator of violence with the gift of compassionate listening.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 33 PP. Paper

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Sensible Justice (5776)

Alternatives To Prison

BY DAVID ANDERSON
SECONDHAND COPY Hardback with dustjacket, good condition. Describing the use of community service, house arrest, drug and sex offender treatment, boot camps and other programs as methods of rehabilitating and punishing criminals, David Anderson discusses their effectiveness and whether they save money.

New Press 1998 175 PP. Cloth

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A Very Good Week Behind Bars

Php 380

BY JANEAL TURNBULL-RAVNDAL
What is it like to spend time in prison for demonstrating? Janeal Ravndal writes of her week in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center after she chose to ignore orders not to block entry to a courthouse as the U.S. began to attack Iraq early in 2003. Janeal shares movingly of joyful moments and discouraging times, of shared prayers and music-making, and of the satisfaction of creating art from the sparse "found" materials in a cell. Conscious of the dramatic contrast between her "very good week" and the days of a typical inmate, she was acutely aware of what a different world prison would be for those who found little joy or companionship there.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 36 PP Paper

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When The Prisoners Ran Walpole

A True Story In The Movement For Prison Abolition

BY JAMIE BISSONETTE
In 1971, Attica's prison yard massacre shocked the public, prisoners, and political leaders across the United States. Massachusetts residents pledged to prevent such slaughter from ever happening there, and the governor agreed. Thus began a move for reform that eventually led to the prisoners at Walpole's Massachusetts Correctional Institute winning control of its day-to-day operations. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole brings this vital history to life, revealing what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.

South End Press 2008 258 PP. Paper

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