Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners by Aitken, Jonathan
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners by Aitken, Jonathan

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people...
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Author: Jonathan Aitken
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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners by Aitken, Jonathan

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners

$58.90
Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners by Aitken, Jonathan

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners

$58.90
Author: Jonathan Aitken
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day.

The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankind's most enduring responses to 'crime' through history. What society has sought to achieve over the years by doing so has shifted across the centuries and there is now a variety of purposes: to express disapproval; for the purpose of straight-up punishment through the removal of freedom; to protect the general public; to rehabilitate, perhaps even to forget about those with whom we simply cannot cope.

The letters assembled here come from all parts of the world, and from time immemorial: Thomas Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots, Eamon De Valera, Al Capone, Martin Luther King and many more.

These letters not only reveal what it is like to be behind bars, but raise issues that are still of pressing interest for us today - such as the death penalty, miscarriages of justice, redemption and social change. They shed light on a system which is primarily one of contradictions - there are letters which inspire, horrify, letters which awe and condemn - even letters which make you laugh or cry.

Author: Jonathan Aitken
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.02w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781399413893

About the Author

Edward Smyth is a writer and speaker in criminal justice. His first book is called Doing Time: A Spiritual Survival Guide. Edward served 18 weeks in prison in 2015.

James Drake is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and Founder at Of Lost Time, an innovative literary unit which uncovers the past's hidden stories through the power of correspondence.

Jonathan Aitken is an ex-MP, ex-Minister and author. Ordained in 2018, he is a prison chaplain at Pentonville. He served 18 months in Belmarsh Prison.
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