Custody & Related Pt2

Ignorance is not bliss!

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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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Current Listing:

Live from Death Row NEW
(Mumia Abu Jamal)
The essays that Mumia writes here offer the reader an insight in the criminal justice system that you could only see if you are inside it. When reading this essays,the reader gets the feeling of depression, isolation, sadness and of despair that any person on death row might be feeling.

Once a Jolly Hangman NEW
(Alan Shadrake)
Alan Shadrake’s hard-hitting new book cuts through the façade of official silence to reveal disturbing truths about Singapore’s use of the death penalty. From in-depth interviews with Darshan Singh, Singapore’s chief executioner for nearly fifty years, to meticulously researched accounts of numerous high profile cases.

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and the American Justice System NEW
(Paul B. Wice)
This book is the most in-depth examination at the Carter case. Dr. Wice had unprecedented access to original court transcripts and interviewed everyone involved in the courtroom proceedings, including prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys and judges. A case as divisive as this naturally produces two distinct, mutually-exclusive groups.

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.

The Skeptical Juror and The Trial of Byron Case
(J Bennett Allen)
Using actual evidence from the trial of Byron Case, the author effectively moves through a very simple but highly logical process of deliberation that members of the jury should have undertaken. Through this, the author shows how doing so would have lead the jury to uncover numerous obvious failures of the prosecution to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a resonable doubt.

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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“The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed themselves”