Prisons: Houses of Darkness

By Leonard Orland

Book Overview

Leonard Orland provides a vivid look at the end of the line in the American legal system, where the rule of law gives way to the "correctional process." Prisons: House of Darkness reveals the lawlessness by which sentencing judges, prison authorities, and parole boards actually operate. Orland shares an eye-opening history of prisons and an overview of daily prison routine from Attica to Soledad--much of it related in the inmates' own words--which shatters the myth of rehabilitation and exposes the injustices of prison life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000O917YA
• ISBN13: 9780029234204
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"