{"product_id":"concrete-mama-prison-profiles-from-walla-walla-9780295743981","title":"Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla","description":"\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by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context for the book's ongoing resonance, along with several previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn A. McCoy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Still and Quiet Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen. He was a reporter and editor at the \u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWalla Walla Union-Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e and has taught writing courses at the University of Washington-Tacoma and Seattle University. \u003cb\u003eEthan Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e (1949-1990) was a photographer for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParis Match\u003c\/i\u003e, and his photo essays appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e. His photography has been exhibited in several museums, including the Smithsonian. \u003cb\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor at the University of Washington Bothell, and an interdisciplinary historian focusing on critical prison studies. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor most recently of \u003ci\u003eRethinking the American Prison Movement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674760417554,"sku":"9780295743981","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_994728e3-83c5-431b-b818-af6a1348a621.jpg?v=1733864865","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/concrete-mama-prison-profiles-from-walla-walla-9780295743981","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}