1997, ISBN: 1879691477

Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America David Matlin ISBN 1-879691-47-7 1997 paper, 116 pp. US $15.00 The author of this book spent almost ten years teaching in some of New Yo… More...

Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America David Matlin ISBN 1-879691-47-7 1997 paper, 116 pp. US $15.00 The author of this book spent almost ten years teaching in some of New York State's harshest maximum-security prisons. Vernooykill Creek is a sensitive and profound cry of moral outrage against the penalization of America, especially of America's less advantaged citizens. Matlin's personal essay takes the long view, placing our current prison crisis in a historical context. According to critic Noam Chomsky, ". . . It's a really impressive piece of work, which captures with wrenching vividness the torture we inflict on others, and ultimately on ourselves. . ." Howard Zinn writes that "Vernooykill Creek is an eloquent and powerful rumination on his experience teaching in prison. It goes beyond his personal story to put into sharp and disturbing perspective the larger problem, so cruelly handled in our society, of crime and punishment." Richard Stratton, the former Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Prison Life magazine adds: "David Matlin spent nearly a decade as a teacher in some of New York State's toughest maximum-security penitentiaries. The experience moved him to compose this devastating essay. Matlin writes with insight and passion as he diagnoses a hideous malady plaguing America, the imprisonment boom, the warehousing of a whole generation of young African American and Latino men in our nation's violent and retribution-oriented prisons that threatens to destr used books,books Books, San Diego State University Press<

1997, ISBN: 1879691477

Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America David Matlin ISBN 1-879691-47-7 1997 paper, 116 pp. US $15.00 The author of this book spent almost ten years teaching in some of New Yo… More...

Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America David Matlin ISBN 1-879691-47-7 1997 paper, 116 pp. US $15.00 The author of this book spent almost ten years teaching in some of New York State's harshest maximum-security prisons. Vernooykill Creek is a sensitive and profound cry of moral outrage against the penalization of America, especially of America's less advantaged citizens. Matlin's personal essay takes the long view, placing our current prison crisis in a historical context. According to critic Noam Chomsky, ". . . It's a really impressive piece of work, which captures with wrenching vividness the torture we inflict on others, and ultimately on ourselves. . ." Howard Zinn writes that "Vernooykill Creek is an eloquent and powerful rumination on his experience teaching in prison. It goes beyond his personal story to put into sharp and disturbing perspective the larger problem, so cruelly handled in our society, of crime and punishment." Richard Stratton, the former Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Prison Life magazine adds: "David Matlin spent nearly a decade as a teacher in some of New York State's toughest maximum-security penitentiaries. The experience moved him to compose this devastating essay. Matlin writes with insight and passion as he diagnoses a hideous malady plaguing America, the imprisonment boom, the warehousing of a whole generation of young African American and Latino men in our nation's violent and retribution-oriented prisons that threatens to destr used books,books Books, San Diego State University Press<

ISBN: 9781879691476

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