Journalists John Mc Coy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition.
Mc Coy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside world. Mc Coy’s unadorned prose and Hoffman’s stunning black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life in the Big House as “outsiders” are ever likely to experience.
Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still relevant, it is revitalized in a second edition with an introduction by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context for the book’s ongoing resonance, along with several previously unpublished photographs.
John A. McCoy
Concrete Mama [EPUB ebook]
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
Concrete Mama [EPUB ebook]
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 288 ● ISBN 9780295743998 ● Tamaño de archivo 66.1 MB ● Editorial University of Washington Press ● Ciudad Seattle ● País US ● Publicado 2018 ● Edición 2 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6801893 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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