The Resource Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis, Jeff Smith
Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis, Jeff Smith
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- Summary
- "The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions of fellow inmate Cornbread and his friends in the Aryan Brotherhood; what constitutes a prison car and who's allowed to ride in yours; how to bend and break the rules, whether you're a prisoner or an officer. And throughout his sentence, the young Senator tracked the greatest crime of all: the deliberate waste of untapped human potential. Smith saw the power of millions of inmates harnessed as a source of renewable energy for America's prison-industrial complex, a system that aims to build better criminals instead of better citizens. In Mr. Smith Goes to Prison, he traces the cracks in America's prison walls, exposing the shortcomings of a racially-based cycle of poverty and crime that sets inmates up to fail. Speaking from inside experience, he offers practical solutions to jailbreak the nation from the financially crushing grip of its own prisons and to jumpstart the rehabilitation of the millions living behind bars"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 272 pages
- Contents
-
- The Missile's Already Left The Silo
- Have Some Respect, Mr. 90210!
- The Senator Be Embezzling...He A Regular Convict Now!
- Prison's Just Like The Street--With A Different Color of Chips
- This Is Jail, Not Yale
- You Best Not Go To Sleep Tonight, Cellie
- You Don't Wanna Get A Cellie With Boobs
- This Ain't T-Ball, Little Senator, We Ain't Givin' You No Tee!
- You'll Be Back, Shitbird
- Isbn
- 9781250058409
- Label
- Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis
- Title
- Mr. Smith goes to prison
- Title remainder
- what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeff Smith
- Subject
-
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
- Ex-legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Imprisonment -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
- Smith, Jeff, 1973-
- Prisoners -- United States -- Biography
- Corrections -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the attentions of fellow inmate Cornbread and his friends in the Aryan Brotherhood; what constitutes a prison car and who's allowed to ride in yours; how to bend and break the rules, whether you're a prisoner or an officer. And throughout his sentence, the young Senator tracked the greatest crime of all: the deliberate waste of untapped human potential. Smith saw the power of millions of inmates harnessed as a source of renewable energy for America's prison-industrial complex, a system that aims to build better criminals instead of better citizens. In Mr. Smith Goes to Prison, he traces the cracks in America's prison walls, exposing the shortcomings of a racially-based cycle of poverty and crime that sets inmates up to fail. Speaking from inside experience, he offers practical solutions to jailbreak the nation from the financially crushing grip of its own prisons and to jumpstart the rehabilitation of the millions living behind bars"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Jeff
- Dewey number
-
- 365/.6092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV9468.S655
- LC item number
- A3 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Smith, Jeff
- Prisoners
- Ex-legislators
- Imprisonment
- Corrections
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis, Jeff Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Missile's Already Left The Silo -- Have Some Respect, Mr. 90210! -- The Senator Be Embezzling...He A Regular Convict Now! -- Prison's Just Like The Street--With A Different Color of Chips -- This Is Jail, Not Yale -- You Best Not Go To Sleep Tonight, Cellie -- You Don't Wanna Get A Cellie With Boobs -- This Ain't T-Ball, Little Senator, We Ain't Givin' You No Tee! -- You'll Be Back, Shitbird
- Control code
- 1616834
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250058409
- Lccn
- 2015017831
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1616834
- (OCoLC)908838490
- Label
- Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis, Jeff Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Missile's Already Left The Silo -- Have Some Respect, Mr. 90210! -- The Senator Be Embezzling...He A Regular Convict Now! -- Prison's Just Like The Street--With A Different Color of Chips -- This Is Jail, Not Yale -- You Best Not Go To Sleep Tonight, Cellie -- You Don't Wanna Get A Cellie With Boobs -- This Ain't T-Ball, Little Senator, We Ain't Givin' You No Tee! -- You'll Be Back, Shitbird
- Control code
- 1616834
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250058409
- Lccn
- 2015017831
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1616834
- (OCoLC)908838490
Subject
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
- Ex-legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Imprisonment -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
- Smith, Jeff, 1973-
- Prisoners -- United States -- Biography
- Corrections -- United States
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