{"product_id":"9780295743981","title":"Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla","description":"Journalists 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.\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context for the book's ongoing resonance, along with several previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christian Apostolic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012611719408,"sku":"9780295743981","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780295743981_p0.jpg?v=1763682965","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780295743981","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}