Review of Intractable: Hell has a Name, Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison
Social Justice › Vol. 33 Nbr. 4, October 2006
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Like Abbott and Boyle, Matthews sketches his childhood memories of growing up, including familial dysfunction and dislocation, as well as his teenage involvement in petty crime and periods spent in juvenile detention centers. Matthews was subjected to an extraordinary amount of institutional violence and public stigmatization, yet this is the story of his emergence from that experience intact, having contributed and achieved so much in terms of his self and tertiary education, writing and publishing, litigating and campaigning on prison conditions and prisoner rights from the inside and outside.
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Review of Intractable: Hell has a Name, Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison
Review of Intractable: Hell Has a Name, Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison Bernie Matthews, Intractable: Hell Has a Name, Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison. Sydney: Macmillan Paperback, 2006; ISBN: 1405037482, pp. 408 (including glossary and notes).
AT A CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY JUST UNDER SIX YEARS AGO, I HAD THE RARE Opportunity to interview author and journalist Bemie Matth...See the full content of this document
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