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Ernie L�pez

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Description:This prison memoir vividly recounts a life of abuse, crime, and incarceration, and reveals the harrowing reality inside America's broken prison system.When Ernie L�pez was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, he would face beatings from his father for not bringing home enough money. When the beatings became unbearable, L�pez took to petty stealing to make up the difference. By thirteen, he was stealing cars, a practice that landed him in California's harshest juvenile reformatory. So began his cycle of crime and incarceration.L�pez spent decades in some of America's most notorious prisons, including four and a half years on death row for a murder he insists he did not commit. To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back is the story of a man who refused to be broken by his abusive father, or by America's abusive criminal justice system.While L�pez admits "I've been no angel," his insider's account of life in Alcatraz and San Quentin graphically reveals the violence, arbitrary punishment, and unending monotony that give rise to gang cultures within the prisons and practically insure that parolees will commit far worse crimes when they return to the streets.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East La Outlaw. To get started finding To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East La Outlaw, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 246

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Release: 2010

ISBN: 0292778198

Description: This prison memoir vividly recounts a life of abuse, crime, and incarceration, and reveals the harrowing reality inside America's broken prison system.When Ernie L�pez was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, he would face beatings from his father for not bringing home enough money. When the beatings became unbearable, L�pez took to petty stealing to make up the difference. By thirteen, he was stealing cars, a practice that landed him in California's harshest juvenile reformatory. So began his cycle of crime and incarceration.L�pez spent decades in some of America's most notorious prisons, including four and a half years on death row for a murder he insists he did not commit. To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back is the story of a man who refused to be broken by his abusive father, or by America's abusive criminal justice system.While L�pez admits "I've been no angel," his insider's account of life in Alcatraz and San Quentin graphically reveals the violence, arbitrary punishment, and unending monotony that give rise to gang cultures within the prisons and practically insure that parolees will commit far worse crimes when they return to the streets.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East La Outlaw. To get started finding To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East La Outlaw, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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