{"product_id":"concrete-mama-prison-profiles-from-walla-walla-9780295743981","title":"Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ethan Hoffman | John A. McCoy | Dan Berger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Penology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside world. McCoy's unadorned prose and Hoffman's stunning black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life in the Big House as \"outsiders\" are ever likely to experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1981, \u003ci\u003eConcrete Mama\u003c\/i\u003e revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still relevant, it is revitalized in a second edition with an introduction by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context for the book's ongoing resonance, along with several previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47780313563287,"sku":"9780295743981","price":4175.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780295743981.webp?v=1778044339","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/concrete-mama-prison-profiles-from-walla-walla-9780295743981","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}