Custody & Related

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This section includes books and publications related to prison & police detention, policing, calls for institutional reform, personal accounts etc.

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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.

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.

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.

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