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We recommend the following resources to provide you with more insight into the world behind bars and related issues. Contact us with your own.
BOOKS
Inside Rikers: Stories from the World’s Largest Penal Colony. Jennifer Wynn. 200????????? St. Martin’s Press.
Maya Angelou
Martin Luther King Jr.
Autobiography of Malcom X
Marcus Garvey
Miseducation of the Negro
Brotherman: The Oddyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology. (1996) H. Boyd & R.L. Allen, Eds.
Actual Innocence: When Justice goes Wrong and How to Make it Right Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer. 2001
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall. 2002
CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement. August Meier & Elliot Rudwick. Illini Books. 1975. ISBN 0-252-00567-8
Prison Writings: My Life is my Sundance. Leonard Peltier. Harvey Arden, Ed. 1999 ISBN 0-312-20354-3
No Equal Justice. David Cole
Everything Happens for a Reason. Mira Kirschenbaum. The Chestnut Hill Institute. www.everythinghappensforareason.org
The People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. Fox Butterfield. Harper Collins
Toxic Psychiatry. Peter Breggin. St. Martin’s Press. 1991
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang. Brotherton, D. & Barrios, L. Columbia University Press. 2004.
Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence. Tom Hayden New Press. 2004
Gangs and society. Kontos, Brotherton, & Barrios. Columbia University Press.2004.
Uprising: Crips and Bloods tell the story of America’s youth in the crossfire. Jah, Y. & Jah, S. Scribner. 1995
Campbell, A. Girls in the Gang. (2nd Ed) Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, Inc. 1984
Fleisher, M.S. Dead End Kids. University of Wisconsin Press. 1998
Moore, J. (1991). Going Down to the Barrio: Homeboys and Homegirls in Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Musick, J.S. (1993). Young, Poor, and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage Motherhood. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Schneider, E.C. (1999). Vampires, Dragons and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Taylor, C.S. (1993). Girls, Gangs, Women and Drugs. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.
Many incarcerated people find comfort in the sacred texts of their religions. You may want to explore some of these texts from a tradition not familiar to you.
The Bible
The Koran
MANY MORE TO COME!!!!
MEDIA
WBAI 99.5 New York City
On the Count --
Saturdays 10:30 - noon
Al Lewis Live --
Saturdays noon - 1:30PM
www.sprol.com
search on "prisons" and see some awsome satellite pictures of Rikers Island
www.telephonejustice.org
The objectives of the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice are to achieve more equitable rates for phone calls to and from prisoners, a high level of consumer choice within the prison telephone system, and fair service without unilateral preemptive cut-offs. We are pursuing these objectives on many fronts, including public education through murals, rallies, advertising and street theater as well as working with family organizations to advocate for fairer phone services for prisoners and their loved ones. Ultimately, the focus of the campaign will be on ending the current contract, a matter that may be pursued through the executive, judicial and legislative branches. We are pursuing all three, but concentrate most specifically on efforts towards the introduction and passage of legislation that incorporates our objectives
www.tookie.com/gang_truce.html
recently executed godfather of the Crips wrote this gang truce which is still in effect, and was recently applied in Newark NJ.
www.prisonpages.org
www.prisontalk.com
www.prisonsucks.com
www.raiseyourvoice.com
www.correctionsproject.org
www.aclu.org/criminaljustice
The Bill of Rights protect all Americans, including suspects, defendants, offenders and prisoners, from governmental abuse of power. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th Amendments guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure, and the right to reasonable bail, due process of law and to be free from cruel and unusual treatment. These rights are indispensable to a free society and something the ACLU advocates for in the court system.
www.ounceofprevention.org
www.homiesunidos.org
www.restorativejustice.org/rj3/intro_default.htm
MANY MORE TO COME!
To learn more about what it took for someone to get to Rikers Island, these resources can be of great help.
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