Prison Breaks
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The Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks
True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter.
Prison Breaks
Prison Breaks explores the gripping history of prison escapes, examining the ingenuity of escapees, the flaws in prison security, and the psychological factors driving these daring acts. The book unveils how individuals risk everything for freedom, highlighting the resourcefulness required to challenge the system. For instance, the meticulous planning behind escapes often exposes vulnerabilities in prison design and protocols. The book adopts a narrative non-fiction approach, blending rigorous research with compelling storytelling. It progresses by first introducing key concepts like prison design flaws and psychological manipulation. It then dissects significant historical escapes, such as those from Alcatraz, Colditz and Dannemora, analyzing security failures and escape strategies. Finally, it examines the broader consequences, including policy changes and ethical dilemmas. Each escape serves as a stress test, revealing vulnerabilities and providing insights into the minds of the incarcerated, thereby contributing to the ongoing debate on prison reform and the effectiveness of security measures.
Prison Breaks
This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they are imagined, designed, organized, justified, reproduced and transformed. The chapters are organised in four interconnected themes: resistance and everyday life; politics and transition; imaginaries and popular culture; and law and bureaucracy, which reflect how escapes are productive, local, historical, and equivocal social practices, and integral to the mysterious intransigence of the prison. The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes – which has so far been absent in prison scholarship – and which will hold broad appeal to academics and students of prisons and penology, as well as practitioners.