Life Sentences: Rage and Survival Behind Bars - Softcover

Rideau, Wilbert; Wikberg, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812920481 ISBN 13: 9780812920482

Verlag: Times Books, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

A portrait of the real world of incarceration presents the stories of actual lifers as they describe who is in prison, who can be rehabilitated and who cannot, the horrors of carrying out the death penalty, and more. Simultaneous.

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Ron Wikberg, associate editor of The Angolite, was convicted of murder in 1969. He began writing for the magazine in 1971 and joined the staff in 1987. He was paroled in 1992. Wilbert Rideau has been the editor-in-chief of The Angolite since 1975. An eighth-grade dropout, he was convicted of murder in 1961 and spent eleven years on death row at Angola, where he taught himself to write. He has been the subject of segments on 20/20, Nightline, and National Public Radio.

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heir award-winning reporting for the Louisiana State Penitentiary's uncensored newsmagazine, The Angolite, Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg present the stark reality of life behind bars and the human, political, and fiscal costs of our long-running war on crime.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812920481
• ISBN 13: 9780812920482
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342
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