In the place of justice : a story of punishment and deliverance / Wilbert Rideau.
Material type:
- 9781846684340
- Rideau, Wilbert
- Louisiana State Penitentiary -- History -- 20th century
- African American prisoners -- Louisiana -- Biography
- Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Biography
- Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century
- Corruption -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century
- African American journalists -- Biography
- HV9475.L22 L646 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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General Collection | Main Campus Library General Stacks | HV9475.L22 L646 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00021194 |
Includes index.
Ruination, 1942-1961 -- Tribulation, 1962-1970 -- Solitary, January 1972 -- The jungle, 1973-1975 -- Mentor, 1976 -- Crackdown, 1976 -- Truth behind bars, 1977-1981 -- Disillusion, 1981-1986 -- Soldiering on, 1986-1990 -- Hope, 1990-1994 -- Censorship, 1995-2001 -- Behind enemy lines, 2001-2005 -- Deliverance, 2005 -- Heaven, 2005.
Rideau brings to vivid life the world of the infamous Angola penitentiary and his long struggle for justice, giving his readers a searing expose of the failures of our legal system framed within his own dramatic tale of how he found meaning, purpose, and hope in prison.
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