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The funhouse mirror : reflections on prison / Robert Ellis Gordon and inmates of the Washington corrections system.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.W2 G67 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Robert Ellis, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Washington (State).
- Prisoners.
- Washington (State).
- Correctional personnel--Washington (State).
- Correctional personnel.
- Prisons--Washington (State).
- Prisons.
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 110 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Gordon's account of teaching writing in Washington prisons is aided by essays and stories contributed by the prisoners themselves. Together, Gordon and his students provide revealing glimpses of this vast, secret-laden subculture of incarcerated individuals, which nationwide comprises more than two million U.S. citizens.
- ISBN:
- 0874221986
- OCLC:
- 43403478
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