Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393313220 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazing but True In this book, Dannie Martin and Peter Sussman have done more to shed light on the idiocy of our prison system than any other book I have read on the subject.Dannie Martin is a convicted criminal, and I expected the usual whining about the system and how he got a poor trial, etc. Instead, what I found was a series of insightful articles written about the prison system by someone who has the ultimate in first hand knowledge. Interwoven with that was the story of the Federal Bureau of Prisons attempts to quiet the man who was exposing their dirty laundry.Dannie Martin is a natural writer with a wonderful sense of humor. Far from being. "committed journalism" according to Matko Vladanovic. Well, what every time happens when one read a good book is, that lots of question are leaved unansvered, and that is the good thing, reader should use brain of his own in some matters. As some other reviewer said, this indeed is an insightful book. for those of you out there who think that democracy is the just system and that everybody in it receives justice ot whatever interpretation of the word you have in mind, this is the book for you. You'll learn that line beetween just and unjust is often so thin that one could say it does not exist. Stretching the concepts of right, and humane, of liberality, justice, crime and punishment,. Kathleen Campbell said Seeing through prison walls. Dannie Martin was an old-time con -- he robbed banks, he didn't rat on his partners and he did his time by minding his own business. Until a stint in the federal prison system led him to send a story to the San Francisco Chronicle, where Peter Sussman, editor of the Datebook section of the paper, published it. And that's when the trouble started. Dannie's clear-eyed unapologetic but fearless snapshots of prison life exposed the outrages committed by guards and administrators. This led the federal Bureau of Prisons to crack down on him and in turn led the Chronicle to sue the prison system on the behalf of Dannie and the paper's Fir
From Publishers Weekly Martin (aka Red Hog) draws together 50 of his controversial essays on the harsh treatment of prisoners with the help of San Francisco Chronicle editor Sussman. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The result is a work of irrefutable witness, a gripping narrative, a book that gives a human face to America’s swelling prison population.. When they first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle they made Martin a celebrityand eventually the Bureau of Prisons tried to silence him. “Red Hog” hard-hitting, eloquent reports on the racism, brutality, inadequate health care, harassment, and other conditions of life behind the prison walls. Peter Sussman, Martin’s editor at the Chronicle, interweaves the story of their struggle, their collaboration, and their friendship. “One of the great political works of our time, a book that ought to be required reading for every American citizen.” San Francisco Bay Guardian