Lucasville The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising

Lynd, Staughton

Lucasville The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising Tb - 2. Auflage / 2nd ed - Oakland, CA 94623 PM Press 2011 - 233 S. 21,5 x 14 x 1,5 cm - EBL-Schweitzer .

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Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal; Introduction; One: A Long Train of Abuses; Two: The Worst of the Worst; Three: Who Killed Officer Vallandingham?; Four: Settlement of a Siege; Diagrams and Photographs; Five: The Criminal Injustice System-Before Trial; Six: The Criminal Injustice System-Trial and Appeal; Seven: Overcoming Racism-The Lucasville Redemption; Eight: Attica and Amnesty; Chronology of Lucasville Rebellion; Appendix One: Transcript of Tunnel Tape 61; Appendix Two: Demands of the Prisoners in L Block Appendix Three: Documents Circulated by Advocates of the Death Penalty for Lucasville RiotersAppendix Four: Selective Prosecution of Leaders of the Rebellion Compared with Informants who Concededly Committed the Same Acts; Appendix Five: Selective Prosecution Based on Identity of Victim; Endnotes; Index In telling the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history, in which hundreds of inmates seized a major area of an Ohio correctional facility, this chronicle examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during its 11-day duration, and the fairness of the trials in the aftermath of the rioting. Recounted from the prisoners' side and viewed through a lawyer's and an activist's lens, this exposé sheds light on the horrific and inhumane prison conditions, the rebellion and killing of 10 people, the drivers of the negotiated surrender, and the trial that was filled with mi

Klebebindung

9781604865370 Tb 1604862246

(OCoLC)714569599


Prison riots -- Ohio -- Lucasville -- Case studies
Gefängnisaufstand
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Lucasville, Ohio)


Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)


Electronic books

HV9475.O32 S685 2011

365.977109049

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