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In The Place Of Justice. Wilbert Rideau (2000)

by Wilbert Rideau(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

184668434X (ISBN13: 9781846684340)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Profile Books(GB)

review 1: This is the memoir of Wilbert Rideau who in 1961, at the age of 19, was convicted or murder of a white woman during a bodged bank robbery. Sentenced to death by a racially biased judical system, he was on death row at Angola, Louisana's notoriously violent penitentiary. He suffered years on death row and in solitary whilst appealing against his sentence, and was eventually resentenced to a life when in 1972 the US Supreme Court abolished the death penalty. While having only a ninth-grade education, Rideau starting reading extensively to pass time in solitary. After he was commuted to a life sentence, he started a prison magazine called The Lifer before being appointed as editor to The Angolite, the official prison publication, a job he retained the next 20 plus years. Repo... morerting on the politics and economics in Angola, he won many prestigous press awards. This fame eventually worked against him as his appeals to be released on clemency, having served more than the required number of years for his crime, were repeatedly denied by the parole board. Rideau spent a total of 44 years in prison before he was finally released. This is a story of resilience and courage, that anyone has potential to change, improve and turn their life around if they set their mind to it.I rated the book a 3 only because there was a little too much details and it got a little long-winded at times.
review 2: Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara. E la trova, l'autore, dopo 44 anni nelle galere della Louisiana. E' colpevole, ma è anche nero e un giusto processo, nel 1961, è una chimera. L'odissea che segue è un lungo, spesso appassionante, viaggio nel sistema carcerario americano, visto con gli occhi di un testimone acuto ed imparziale con il dono della scrittura, che gli permetterà di resistere e lottare. less

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