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El presidente y la rana / by De Robertis, Caro,author.(CARDINAL)341543; Laopez Araiza Bravo, Hugo,translator.;
"At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: while held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back--a loud-mouth frog. As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream."-- "En su casa modesta a las afueras de la ciudad, el expresidente de un país latinoamericano anónimo recibe a una periodista en su famoso jardín, para discutir su legado y las circunstancias funestas que amenazan a la democracia en todo el mundo. A él lo conocían como el Presidente Más Pobre del Mundo, y su reputación es mítica: fue guerrillero y lo encarcelaron por incitar a la revolución antes de convertirse en la imagen de la justicia, los derechos humanos y el altruismo para su país. Ahora, mientras habla con la periodista, se pregunta si debería revelarle el extraño secreto de su encarcelamiento: mientras lo tenían en un confinamiento solitario brutal, sobrevivió, en parte, discutiendo sobre la revolución, la búsqueda de la dignidad y qué significa amar a un país con la única criatura que le contestaba: una rana insolente. Tan cautivadora como innovadora, vívida, conmovedora y llena de ingenio y humor, El presidente y la rana explora la resiliencia de la naturaleza humana y lo que es posible cuando el peligro se cierne sobre nosotros. Mientras nos transporta entre una lúgubre celda y el exuberante jardín del presidente, el relato atraviesa todas las fronteras y nos invita a pensar desde cero qué significa gobernar, atreverse a hacer las cosas y soñar."--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Ex-presidents; Solitary confinement;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement / by Casella, Jean,editor.(CARDINAL)434775; Ridgeway, James,1936-editor.(CARDINAL)144241; Shourd, Sarah,editor.(CARDINAL)406208;
Includes bibliographical references."The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen authors vividly describe the miserable realities of life in solitary. In a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe thedevastating effects of solitary confinement on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement, and a comprehensive introduction by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella. Sarah Shourd, herself a survivor of more than a year of solitary confinement, writes eloquently in a preface about an experience that changed her life. "--
Subjects: Imprisonment; Solitary confinement;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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23/7 [sound recording]: Pelican Bay and the rise of long-term solitary confinement / by Reiter, Keramet.(CARDINAL)622479;
Read by C.S.E. Cooney.Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one "supermax," California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners. This book describes how Pelican Bay was created without legislative oversight, in fearful response to 1970s radicals; how easily prisoners slip into solitary; and the mental havoc and social costs of years and decades in isolation. The product of fifteen years of research in and about prisons, this book provides essential background to a subject now drawing national attention.
Subjects: Sound recordings.; Solitary confinement; Prisons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Six by ten : stories from solitary / by Pendergrass, Taylor,editor.(CARDINAL)795197; Hoke, Mateo,editor.(CARDINAL)617810;
"In thirteen intimate narratives, Six by Ten explores the mental, physical, and spiritual impacts of America's widespread embrace of solitary confinement. Through stories from those subjected to solitary confinement, family members on the outside, and corrections officers, Six by Ten examines the darkest hidden corners of America's mass incarceration culture and illustrates how solitary confinement inflicts lasting consequences on families and communities far beyond prison walls"--
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Solitary confinement; Prisoners;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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No human contact : solitary confinement, maximum security, and two inmates who changed the system / by Earley, Pete,author.(CARDINAL)351843;
"Examining the cases of two convicted killers who both experienced and changed modern-day corrections policy in America, award-winning New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley delivers an eye-opening narrative of reprehensible crime, draconian punishment, and seemingly impossible reform in the harshest depths of the country's most dangerous prisons" --
Subjects: Silverstein, Thomas, 1952-2019.; Fountain, Clayton Anthony, 1955-2004.; Solitary confinement; Prisons;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Locked up in America [videorecording] / by Edge, Dan.proausdrt; Jones, Elizabeth C.pro; Mucciolo, Lauren.pro; Mongoose Pictures.production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.(CARDINAL)154259;
Narrator, Will Lyman.Originally broadcast by PBS Apr. 22 and 29, 2014.Two Frontline episodes on the American penal system. Solitary nation looks at life in solitary confinement in Maine's maximum security prison. Prison state addresses the problem of mass incarceration in America, focusing on four residents of a Louisville, Kentucky housing project as they cycle in and out of the state's prison system.TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated.DVD; NTSC; all regions; wide screen; stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Legal television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Prisoners; Prisons; Prisons; Prisons; Recidivism; Solitary confinement; Solitary confinement;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Letters to a prisoner / by Goldstyn, Jacques.(CARDINAL)734925; Keenlyside, Angela,translator.(CARDINAL)633759;
"Inspired by Amnesty International's letter-writing campaigns to help free people who have been jailed for expressing their opinion, [this nearly wordless] book tells the story of a man who is arrested during a peaceful protest. In solitary confinement, he begins to despair--until a bird delivers a letter of support written by somebody outside the prison. Every day more missives arrive until the prisoner escapes his fate on wings made of letters"--Amazon.com.NP
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Wordless picture books.; Letter writing; Political prisoners; Solitary confinement;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement : my story of transformation and hope / by Woodfox, Albert,author.(CARDINAL)806639; George, Leslie,author.(CARDINAL)811108;
Includes index."Solitary" is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement-in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana-all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, inspired behind bars in his early twenties to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living, Albert was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals were needed before he was finally released in February 2016. Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. He survived to give us "Solitary," a chronicle of rare power and humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive against any odds.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Woodfox, Albert.; Louisiana State Penitentiary.; Prisoners; Ex-convicts; African American political activists; Solitary confinement.;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 28
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Chess story [videorecording] /
Cinematography, Thomas W. Kiennast ; editor, Sven Budelmann ; music, Ingo Frenzel.Oliver Masucci, Albrecht Schuch, Brigit Minichmayr, Samuel Finzi, Andreas Lust, Lukas Miko, Joel Basman.Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.MPAA Rating: DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.0.
Subjects: Foreign films; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Missing persons; Solitary confinement; Chess;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A place to stand : the making of a poet / by Baca, Jimmy Santiago,1952-(CARDINAL)721934;
The story of Jimmy Santiago Baca, "winner of the Pushcart Prize and the American Book Award ... called an heir to Pablo Neruda ... [who] at the age of twenty-one ... was illiterate and facing five to ten years in a maximum-security prison for selling drugs."--Jacket.Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 2002.
Subjects: Biographies.; Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-; Poets, American; Ex-convicts; Solitary confinement; Mexican American poets; Prisons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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