The book further details the lives of these women in prison as the authors describe the various programs that are offered to
lifers, the difficulties adjusting to prison life and culture, the struggles to maintain relationships outside the walls of the prison, and the physical, mental and emotional difficulties they face over the years.
Women Lifers: Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars
"If it did not, their hope for some years of life outside prison walls must be restored." He told states to review the prison terms of incarcerated
lifers, noting that sentences without parole should be reserved for only the "rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility."
Life AFTER Life
This seemed a common thread with the majority of the
lifer community.
Doing time with lifers: a reflective study of life sentence prisoners
Country
lifers questioned the legitimacy of the state because of the spatial and participatory separation between the federal government and rural folk.
Yeoman citizens: the country life association and the reinvention of democratic legitimacy
The superintendent has told me that he thinks his prison is safer, less violent, with fewer riots and killings than in other prisons because of the influence of the
lifers. Robert Johnson, Ph.D., a professor in the department of justice, law, and society at American University in Washington, whose observations inspired this month's question, has offered data bearing out the superintendent's observations.
Fink! still at large: Robert Johnson, Ph.D., an expert in criminal justice, has described the life of a lifer as a 'repetitive, bleak, and lonely existence, and that is on the good days.' How can psychiatrists who work with life without parole patients help them find meaning?
Research suggests that the vast majority of
lifers opt to avoid trouble and to make the most of the opportunities for work, education and rehabilitative programs in prison (see Johnson, 2002).
Mature coping among life-sentenced inmates: an exploratory study of adjustment dynamics
The decline in the number of paroles given to
lifers, both because more defendants are now being sentence to life without parole and because parole boards have grown charier of releasing prisoners, means that more and more prisoners are spending all their lives in prison without hope of ever getting out.
Plight of lifers needs attention
Lifer was editor in chief of School Library Journal (SLJ).
Scholastic Library Publishing
Forty
lifers got out last October compared to 92 in the whole of 1995.
Fury as 331 lifers freed from jails
Such a query relates to The Big Test's larger theme: "Who succeeds in America, and why?" Lemann identifies three tracks to success, represented by three types of citizens: Mandarins, Talents, and
Lifers. Mandarins go to the best schools and think that, by dint of their education, they are indispensable to managing the massive machinery of the modern state.
One-Track Mind
Mrs Rankin, 81, was found
LIFER Karen dead at her Dublin Road home in Newry, Co Down, on Christmas Day, 2008.
CRUCIFIX KILLER IN APPEAL BID; Neighbour denies OAP murder
He is tempted by a friend and a beautiful
Lifer girl, Siobhan, to try a potion that will make him smarter.
Holt, K. A. Brains for Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku?!
A real estate
lifer unable to pull himself away, Benitez says that on vacations he will often find himself out scouting areas for development.
HH Realty Group
"But the usual scenario is that gay sex is instigated by a
lifer who turns to other men after about 10 to 12 years inside, out of frustration.
LIFERS TARGET ADDICTS FOR 'TABOO' VISITS
One
lifer even had his own clothes shop, from which he persuaded other convicts to buy clothes.
Life of luxury within prison compound