Prison Work

A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections

By: William Richard Wilkinson

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Paperback | 8 October 2005

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What do we know first-hand about prisons? We have accounts from many top administrators. There is a large literature of convict reports and memoirs. But we have almost no personal accounts written by the people who were engaged in the day-to-day work of guarding and keeping prison inmates.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Editors' Introduction	p. ix
Note to the Reader	p. xxiv
Introducing Dick Wilkinson	p. xvii
Chino-An Ideal Beginning	p. 1
The California Medical Facility: Starting It, and Getting It to Work	p. 37
My Experience with Everyday Problems at CMF	p. 64
Trying to Hold Things Together during Change at CMF	p. 98
Soledad, 1977-1981	p. 135
Reflecting on Being an Employee in the Prison System	p. 160
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Prison Work

A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections

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