Prisons
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£9.00Abolition Now!: Ten Years Of Strategy And Struggle Against The Prison Industrial Complex - Paperback
Published in honour of Critical Resistance's tenth anniversary, this book looks at the organization's struggle to abolish the reliance on imprisonment, policing and surveillance. -
Add to BasketEscape: The True Story Of The Only Westerner Ever To Break Out Of The Bangkok Hilton - - Paperback
£9.99
Amidst the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape from the 'Bangkok Hilton'. This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillan's perilous break-out from Asia's most notorious prison. -
Add to BasketDark Heart: Tales From Edinburgh's Town Jail - - Paperback
£7.99
The Old Tolbooth Jail - Edinburgh's Bastille - was for five centuries the capital's heart of darkness. Here, the complete story of the Old Tolbooth is told, from its proud beginnings to its final downfall at the hands of municipal vandals. -
Add to BasketPeterhead Porridge: Tales From The Funny Side Of Scotland's Most Notorious Prison - - Paperback
£7.99
Behind the bars of Peterhead Prison, you'll find drugs, riots and fighting making the headlines, but there's also humour and stories aplenty as some of the most violent men in British crime do their time. Told by Britain's most wanted man in 1974, this is James Crosbie's insight into the other side of prison life. -
Add to BasketCons: Voices From Inside - Paperback
£9.99
Using the prisoners' own words, 'Cons' takes the reader on an unflinching trip through the penal system. Unfiltered, unapologetic and pulling no punches, the frank and open testimony of current and former inmates gives insider access to a world that fascinates as readily as it appalls. -
Add to BasketCarabanchel: The Last Brit In Europe's Hellhole Prison - - Paperback
£9.99
This book tells a true story of survival in what was arguably the most sinister prison in Europe: the Carabanchel. Christopher Chance was the last Brit to be shackled and hauled out of that infamous Spanish hellhole before it closed its gates on decades of disgraceful cruelty. -
Add to BasketThe Lone Brit On 13: A Prisoner's Hell In Spain's Toughest Jail - - Paperback
£9.99
'The Lone Brit on 13' is the account of an adrenalin-addicted Englishman single-handedly defeating intimidation, racism and potential drug addiction in the bleak surroundings of a Spanish jail. -
Add to BasketCages Of Steel: The Politics Of Imprisonment In The United States - Paperback
£16.00
An anthology of interviews, essays, articles and statements, this work documents the treatment of political prisoners in the United States, the use of physical torture, psychological brainwashing and experiments designed to destroy revolutionary beliefs. -
Add to BasketPrison Discourse: Language As A Means Of Control And Resistance - - Hardback
£60.00
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this text clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have with a critical discourse analysis perspective. -
Add to BasketForget You Had A Daughter: Doing Time In The 'Bangkok Hilton' - - Paperback
£6.99
Sandra Gregory was caught smuggling heroin through Bangkok airport in 1993. Her punishment saw her suffer the horrors of the notorious 'Bangkok Hilton' prison, before being transferred to a British prison, then freed in 2000. This is her story.