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Author Rideau, Wilbert.

Title In the place of justice : a story of punishment and deliverance / Wilbert Rideau.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 366 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Rideau, Wilbert.
Rideau, Wilbert.
Louisiana State Penitentiary -- History -- 20th century.
Louisiana State Penitentiary.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African American prisoners -- Louisiana -- Biography.
African American prisoners.
Louisiana.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Prisoners.
Prisoners -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Corruption -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.
Corruption.
African American journalists -- Biography.
African American journalists.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780307264817 hardcover
0307264815