Custody & Related
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This section includes books and publications related to prison & police detention, policing, calls for institutional reform, personal accounts, studies, biographies and much more.
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Current Listing:
Brotherhood of Corruption
(Juan Anronio Juarez)
A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality and Racial Profiling.
Dead Wrong
(Tim Cleary)
Capital punishment is a rigged lottery, skewed by matters of politics, class, race, geography, and, most important, the quality and resources of the defense lawyer at trial.
Women on Death Row
(Mike James)
Texas and Oklahoma are amongst many States where the word mercy is barely ever used and, in one instance, it was suggested that an execution was allowed to take place to boost an election campaign. Unsurprisingly, African-Americans appear to get less consideration than their white counterparts when it comes to applying the ultimate penalty.
Eddie’s Country
(Simon Luckhurst)
Eddie Murray died in suspicious circumstances in a police cell in Australia’s town of Wee Waa in 1981. He was 21 years old. His parents, Arthur and Leila Murray, embarked on a search for truth and fought for over 20 years to have the death of their son properly investigated.
Enemy Combatant
(Moazzam Begg)
An ordinary man has endured an extraordinary fate – imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit and whose precise nature has never been determined. As far as the US government was concerned, it was enough to label him an ‘enemy combatant.”
Finding Freedom
(Jarvis Jay Masters)
Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Masters’ commitment to non-violence leads him more and more into the role of peacemaker as he tries to put compassion into action.
Gladiator Games
(Tanika Gupta)
On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in March 2000, Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man was attacked by his cellmate. One week later he died from his injuries. Tanika Gupta has dramatised the story of how this nineteen year old man met his death and who was responsible for his being shut up in a cell with a dangerous violent and racist cellmate.
In the Care of the State
(Dr Barry Goldson & Deborah Coles of pressure group, INQUEST)
Groundbreaking new book on child deaths in penal custody receives critical acclaim and a call for action in parliament.
Also see INQUEST’s Information Pack for Families, Friends & Advisors
The pack provides information on all aspects of the inquest system in an easy to use format.Dying on the Inside
provides a comprehensive examination of INQUEST’s casework on the 115 women’s deaths in prison between 1990 – 2007.
Police Brutality – An Anthology
(Nelson Jill)
A collection of thirteen essays from a variety of sources examines one of America’s most serious domestic problems, investigates its historical and sociological roots, and grapples for solutions.
Policing Citizens
(P.A.J Waddington)
The simple answer to the question, “what is policing?” is that policing is what officers do! Or is it? Waddington unravel the psyche of police men and women.
Stolen Time
(Sunny Jacobs)
Sunny spent 5 years in solitary confinement on Death Row before her sentence was eventually reduced to life imprisonment. After seventeen years of legal wrangling her sentences were quashed and she was given back her freedom.
The Colour of Justice
(Richard Norton-Taylor)
This book is made up from some of the many transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence enquiry. The editor has picked out a selection of interviews and testimonies that make up this horrifying but riveting read about the senseless murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence.
The Execution of Wanda Jean
(Liz Garbus)
The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era.
The Hounding of David Oluwale
(Kester Aspden)
When the body of David Oluwale was pulled out of the River Aire near Leeds in May 1969, nobody asked too many questions of his death. A police charge sheet had ‘UK’ scored out, and his nationality replaced with a handwritten ‘WOG’
The Liberty Guide to Human Rights
(Megan Addis & Penelope Morrow)
Your Rights is Liberty ’s guide to human rights and civil liberties in the UK . It is designed for people who want to know more about their legal rights and are not sure where to start.
The Outsider: The Autobiography of One of Britain’s Most Controversial Policemen
(Keith Helawell)
Keith Hellawell rose to become Chief Constable of Cleveland, and then West Yorkshire, and later, controversially, New Labour’s much-feted and summarily dismissed “Drugs Czar”. In this autobiography, he writes candidly about four decades of public service.
Through the Eyes of a Lost Soul
(Tony Egbuna Ford)
This collection of writings is a candid and vivid look into the mind, emotions, thoughts and experiences of one of Texas Death Row’s most valiant, and on Amazon undervalued, political prisoners.
Unlocking the Truth
(Helen Shaw & Deborah Coles of pressure group, INQUEST)
Describes the experiences of families bereaved by deaths in custody,from the time of death to the conclusion of the investigation and inquest.
Untouchables – Dirty Cops,
Bent Justice & Racism in Scotland Yard
(Michael Gillard & Laurie Flynn)
This is the result of a 5 year investigation into Scotland Yard’s most secretive & powerful unit, an undercover unit, charged with rooting out corrupt & racist cops, that went public in 1998 as ‘the Untouchables.’
Who Killed Jill Dando? (The case of Barry George)
(S.C. Lomax)
The case of the Crown vs. George has been compared to the American case of the People vs. (O.J.) Simpson, the ex-professional football player charged in the murders of his ex-wife her lover. If there are any parallels in the two cases, they certainly end with their verdicts: whereas Simpson was acquitted, George wasn’t.
Writing for their Lives
(Marie Mulvey-Roberts)
Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death row’s madness and suicide-inducing realities, writing for Their Lives offers powerful and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality of the row.
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