Description: CONCRETE MAMA PRISON PROFILES FROM WALLA WALLA by Ethan Hoffman - 1982 2nd PRINTJournalists 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.McCoy 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.Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award.
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Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Ethan Hoffman
Publisher: University of MO Press
Topic: Prison
Subject: Art & Photography
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1981
