Concertina wire across the top of a barbed wire perimeter fence

Scenes of Prison


Table of Contents

Summoned - An Introduction

1. The Man with a Broken Finger

2. Christmas Morning

3. Black Lives Matter

4. A Small Round Target Named Fred

5. Bonnie the Brave

6. Benjamin and Richard

7. Pot Party in the Shower Room

8. Raymond and Darryl, a Love Story

9. Criminal Case Histories

10. Bill Foster

11. Dwayne and the End of Upholstered Furniture

12. The Question of Respect

13. No-Man's Land

14. Inmate Cunning: Cons

15. Kentuck

16. The Farmhouse Five

17. Something They Don't Tell You in the Interview

18. Malcolm’s Test

19. Wanting to Fight, or Not

20. Necktie or Noose?

21. Addiction

22. Why Do Criminals Commit Crimes?

23. The Squad

24. Mean Mugging

25. “You're my Soulmate. I Love You."

26. Unwritten Rules

27. An Adoption from Hell

28. Gerald the Smart

29. Management by Mirth

30. A Daily Humiliation

31. Graduating to Death Row

32. Hunger Strike

33. Is it Too Dangerous to Work Here?

34. A Mother's Horror

35. Francisco’s Remarkable Display

36. Prosperous John

37. You’re Torturing People in Seg!

38. Who is My Enemy?

39. The Head Banger

40. A Modest Flirtation?

41. A Parent’s Curse

42. Suicide and Five-Pointing

43. Working for a Living

44. Breakfast assault

45. A Spasm of Violence

46. Stanton and his Gang

47. "I'm Gonna Put a Curse on You . . ."

48. A Gathering of Ghosts

49. Calling a Bluff Takes Heart

50. Holidays

51. The Man Who Made Inmates Tremble

52. Lessons learned by Bruising

53. The Trap

54. Sewer Sabotage in Segregation

55. Sebastian

56. Mental Illness in the Prison

57. Aamadu

58. Being Afraid

59. My Last Day



Addendum: If I Ran the Zoo . . .


60. Training for Life

61. The Oldest One Percent

62. The Kick-Out List

63. Centralized Sentencing

64. Dignified Dying



Topic Index


A note to educators and group leaders

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits


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