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Walls and Bars

by Eugene Victor Debs
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781417902927
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: USD 28.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Penology

Walls and Bars is a non-fiction book written by Eugene Victor Debs, an American socialist, union leader, and political activist. The book provides a firsthand account of Debs' experience serving time in prison for his role in the Pullman Strike of 1894. The book chronicles Debs' time in prison, including his interactions with other inmates, the harsh conditions of imprisonment, and his reflections on the justice system and the role of the state in society. Debs also discusses his political beliefs and the socialist movement, arguing for the need for fundamental change in American society. Walls and Bars is a powerful and insightful book that offers a unique perspective on the American justice system and the struggle for social justice.1927. The book is dedicated To the countless thousands of my brothers and sisters who have suffered the cruel and pitiless torture and degradation of imprisonment in the jails, penitentiaries and other barbarous and brutalizing penal institutions of capitalism under our much-vaunted Christian civilization, and who in consequence now bear the ineffaceable brand of convicts and criminals, this volume is dedicated with affection and devotion by one of their number. Contents: The Relation of Society to the Convict; The Prison as an Incubator of Crime; I Become U.S. Convict, No. 9653; Sharing the Lot of Les Miserables; Transferred From My Cell to the Hospital; Visitors and Visiting; The 1920 Campaign for President; A Christmas Eve Reception; Leaving the Prison; General Prison Conditions; Poverty Populates the Prison; Creating the Criminal; How I Would Manage the Prison; Capitalism and Crime; Poverty and the Prison; Socialism and the Prison; Leaving the Prison; Prison Labor, Its Effects on Industry and Trade; Studies Behind Prison Walls; and Wasting Life.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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