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Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis

Mr. Smith goes to prison : what my year behind bars taught me about America's prison crisis

Smith, Jeff, 1973- author.
Book 2015

"The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one. In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr. Smith Goes to Prison is the fish-out-of-water story of his time in the big house; of the people he met there and the things he learned: how to escape the atte...

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Corrections United States
Criminal justice, Administration of United States
Ex-legislators United States Biography
Imprisonment United States
Prisoners United States Biography
Smith, Jeff, 1973-
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ISBN:
9781250058409
Edition:
First edition
Description:
viii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index
Contents:
The missile's already left the silo
Have some respect, Mr. 90210!
The Senator be embezzling ... He a regular convict now!
Prison's just like the street-- with a different color of chips
This is jail, not Yale
You best not go to sleep tonight, Cellie
You don't wanna get a cellie with boobs
This ain't t-ball, little Senator, we ain't givin' you no tee!
You'll be back, shitbird
Control Number:
1381339
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