Money still matters in prison. The difference is that behind the walls, the economy operates by different rules.Money on the Yard takes readers inside the financial world of prison, where commissary, prison wages, outside support, skills, reputation, debt, scarcity, and informal hustles all shape daily life. Michael Good examines how incarcerated people earn, spend, trade, borrow, save, and adapt in an environment where almost every financial choice is restricted.T...

In prison, the official rules are only part of the system.Politics on the Yard takes readers inside the unwritten power structure of prison life, where reputation, race, geography, alliances, information, and influence can shape daily survival just as much as institutional policy. Michael Good examines how cars form, how shot callers gain influence, how respect becomes currency, and how rumors, debts, favors, staff interactions, and group loyalty can quick...

Federal prison is not a movie, a street story, or something to glamorize. It is a complete disruption of freedom, routine, privacy, relationships, and identity. Paused But Not Gone is Michael Good's practical and personal guide to surviving federal prison without allowing the experience to destroy your mind, dignity, or future.Drawing from lived experience and observation, Good walks readers through what to expect before surrendering, the first seventy-two hours, prison po...

Prison separates people physically, but it does not erase love.Love on the Yard explores what happens to relationships when one person is incarcerated and the people who care about them are left to keep living on the outside. Michael Good examines the emotional reality of phone calls, visits, distance, jealousy, money, family, loyalty, heartbreak, and the pressure placed on relationships trying to survive years of separation.The book looks at the sacrifices made on...

One afternoon. One moment. A story that changed everything.At a high school track meet in Atchison, Kansas, seventeen-year-old Malik Carter finds himself separated from his team as a storm rolls in. Looking for shelter, he steps beneath another school's tent and immediately feels the weight of being somewhere he is not considered to belong. What begins as discomfort and suspicion quickly becomes something far more serious.As rain pounds the athletic complex, confusion sprea...

Bait & Switch: The Battle for Leavenworth is a fast-moving nonfiction account of how a local zoning dispute in Leavenworth, Kansas, grew into a much larger confrontation involving CoreCivic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, the courts, and the limits of local government authority.For decades, the detention facility at 100 Highway Terrace was part of Leavenworth's correctional landscape. Operated by CoreCivic and previously u...

Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After five years of research—interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the...

Sexuality does not disappear when someone goes to prison. Attraction still exists. Desire still exists. Loneliness exists. So does the need for companionship, intimacy, love, and connection. Sexuality on the Yard is Michael Good's honest examination of what happens when those human needs exist inside an environment built around confinement.Drawing from lived experience and observation, Good explores openly gay and bisexual prisoners, heterosexual men who engage in same-sex...

This book is designed for you to look inwardly, discovering and exploring your God-given talent and potential. It will stir you up to create opportunities for yourself instead of waiting for someone else to. It proffers solutions to our economic and financial problems which trigger suffering and pain in our lives.I charge everyone reading this book to be awake, face their responsibilities and take bold steps which will pave way for them to see the end of pain and suffering. You sho...

This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael Goodhart argues that the dominant paradigm, ideal moral theory (IMT), takes a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to injustice. At the same time, leading alternatives to IMT struggle to make ...

Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume covers outstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for...

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. However, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.g., to make suitable maps) requires that we account for the scale of measurement explicitly. Scale in Spat