An edition of Mr. Smith goes to prison (2015)

Mr. Smith goes to prison

what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis

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An edition of Mr. Smith goes to prison (2015)

Mr. Smith goes to prison

what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis

First edition.
  • 1 Want to read

"The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions of fellow inmate Cornbread and his friends in the Aryan Brotherhood; what constitutes a prison car and who's allowed to ride in yours; how to bend and break the rules, whether you're a prisoner or an officer. And throughout his sentence, the young Senator tracked the greatest crime of all: the deliberate waste of untapped human potential. Smith saw the power of millions of inmates harnessed as a source of renewable energy for America's prison-industrial complex, a system that aims to build better criminals instead of better citizens. In Mr. Smith Goes to Prison, he traces the cracks in America's prison walls, exposing the shortcomings of a racially-based cycle of poverty and crime that sets inmates up to fail. Speaking from inside experience, he offers practical solutions to jailbreak the nation from the financially crushing grip of its own prisons and to jumpstart the rehabilitation of the millions living behind bars"--

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
272

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Table of Contents

The Missile's Already Left The Silo
Have Some Respect, Mr. 90210!
The Senator Be Embezzling...He A Regular Convict Now!
Prison's Just Like The Street
With A Different Color of Chips
This Is Jail, Not Yale
You Best Not Go To Sleep Tonight, Cellie
You Don't Wanna Get A Cellie With Boobs
This Ain't T-Ball, Little Senator, We Ain't Givin' You No Tee!
You'll Be Back, Shitbird.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365/.6092, B
Library of Congress
HV9468.S655 A3 2015, HV9468.S655A3 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 272 pages
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27192998M
ISBN 10
1250058406
ISBN 13
9781250058409
LCCN
2015017831
OCLC/WorldCat
908838490

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