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Angelina, una contratista extranjera en seguridad por alta tecnología, es secuestrada y sometida a un extraño arresto en México, hecha sin cargos ni orden judicial, abriendo una pequeña mirilla en la difícil situación de las mujeres pobres en las cárceles mexicanas. Si bien México ha registrado más de 250.000 asesinatos desde 2007, mientras los cárteles recién fragmentados luchan contra los militares y entre sí, es la población civil la que paga en gran medida las consecuencias. "Balas como Papeletas" y "Plata o Plomo" son los eslóganes nacionales que reflejan el terror ...

Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that the root of the problem is white supremacy.

So You're Going to Prison is the ultimate survival guide for anyone facing incarceration. Whether you're preparing for a short stint or a long sentence, this comprehensive guide walks you through every stage of the prison experience, from intake to release. Written with insight and empathy, it offers practical advice on navigating prison life, avoiding conflicts, building trust, maintaining mental health, and finding purpose during your time inside. This book doesn't focus on the mistakes that led to your incarceration but rather on helping you survive—and even thrive—within the prison ...

In late 2019, Dennis Oya's persistent cough was just the beginning of a harrowing tale of neglect and systemic failure in a Washington prison. Diagnosed eighteen months later with tuberculosis (TB), Oya's case sparked one of the largest prison TB outbreaks in decades, affecting over 3,000 contacts. This outbreak, and others like it, exposes the glaring weaknesses in prison healthcare systems. In Outbreak Behind Bars, Homer Venters reveals the grim realities of how communicable diseases thrive in the overcrowded, unsanitary conditions of correctional facilities.

Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives.

Me n Mikey was written when the author was 80 years old and wanted to explain the time from his juvenile delinquent youth until he married when he was 29 years old. The character Mikey was created to make the journeys the author experienced growing up to distinguish between the youth that he was and the adult he was to become. But Mikey, the Monster, was to come back and sit on the author's shoulder for years to come after the book was published. This is an updated and revised edition of the original and more notations.