A Life for a Life: Life Imprisonment: America's Other Death Penalty

by James Paluch

Book Overview

James A. Paluch, Jr., is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. In this remarkably perceptive book, he offers the reader a detailed account of the daily realities of prison life in its mundane essentials, from the culture of the cellblock to the etiquette of the yard and the mess hall. The book also highlights concepts of prisonization, institutionalization, and the community, as well as the nature of modern punishment.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533048X
• ISBN13: 9780195330489
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"