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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Beverly Monroe spent seven years in prison for murdering her companion of thirteen years; in fact, he had killed himself. Christopher Ochoa was persuaded to confess to a rape and murder he did not commit, and served twelve years of his life sentence before he was freed by DNA evidence. Michael Evans and Paul Terry each spent twenty-seven years in prison for a brutal rape and murder they did not commit. They were teenagers when they entered prison;...
Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Inside this place, not of it reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. Here, in their own words, thirteen narrators recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle once inside"--Cover, page [4]
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. [This book is a] collection of oral histories that tells--in their own words--the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States"--Publisher marketing.
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Unheard Voices of the Pandemic reveals through first-person narratives what happened the year the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States. The seventeen stories included in this collection speak to the precarity, uncertainty, and injustice of that year, but also to bravery, solidarity, and generosity. Although the shadow cast by the COVID-19 pandemic is long, the insights gleaned through listening can last longer."--Google Books viewed Dec....
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