An indispensable work that features essential information about federal prisons.
An ambitious guide examines the federal prison system.
This book’s subtitle is deadly serious and thoroughly warranted. From the outset, Zoukis (Prison Education Guide, 2016, etc.) mounts a convincing case regarding mass incarceration and the changing demands of prison populations, thereby underscoring the need for this project. The author has been an inmate since 2006 and provides an insider’s view often missing from discussions of the federal prison system. The helpful italicized tips that appear frequently throughout the text are based on considerable experience, observation, and research. But the most sustained first-person account lies in the chapter devoted to the heightened restrictions and indignities of the Special Housing Unit. Zoukis tackles a wide array of challenging issues, such as communicable diseases, mental health, suicide, substance abuse, violence, gangs, and sexual assaults. The densest chapter focuses on the Inmate Discipline Program, examining incidents that occur on the inside. As he does consistently throughout the book, Zoukis breaks down the bureaucracy, explains the processes involved, and offers advice—in this case, how best to represent and defend oneself, whether innocent or guilty of the charges. Beyond the handbook’s obvious appeal to future and current inmates, the author correctly asserts that it is also useful for friends and family, legal professionals, prison staff, and students of the criminal justice system. For example, in addition to a separate chapter on visitation procedures that should greatly benefit loved ones, Zoukis suggests that, in the event of an emergency on the outside, friends and family members should communicate directly with the chaplaincy staff, request a return call from the inmate within 24 hours, and repeat this procedure if necessary. Given that the stated goal of the prison system is rehabilitation, the author presents the advantages and disadvantages of different work assignments as well as the opportunities available for education, entertainment, recreation, religious services, and legal research. Zoukis manages to compile, organize, and annotate an astonishing amount of data in a way that should satisfy all readers. At the end of this impressive manual, he directly addresses new inmates: “As you stand at that prison gate awaiting entry into a culture to which no one wants admission, what choice will you make? Will you choose success or failure?” This comprehensive handbook goes a long way to answering those questions.
An indispensable work that features essential information about federal prisons.Pub Date: Jan. 22, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-692-79973-4
Page Count: 522
Publisher: Middle Street Publishing
Review Posted Online: April 7, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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