Lion Publishing 2000 Hardcover Very Good 2000. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Clean copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

Lion Pub. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lion Pub ISBN 0745950019 9780745950013 [US]

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Lion, Date: 2000-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.3858 cent in x 21.5736 cent in x 13.9848 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post 2000. Lion ISBN 0745950019 9780745950013 [GB]

ISBN10: 0745950019, ISBN13: 9780745950013, [publisher: A Lion Book] Hardcover First Edition Hardback. Lord Longford's name was synonymous with the cause of prison reform in Britain, and in particular with support for the release of murderer Myra Hindley. But behind the headlines and the public debates lay a lifetime of prison visiting, begun in the 1930s in Oxford. Even in his mid-nineties he continued to visit an average of two prisoners a week, travelling to all corners of the country by public transport to see people who often had no one else for support. This remarkable diary, covering the years from 1995 to 1999, is not only a witness to his extraordinary commitment to and compassion for prisoners, but also a disturbing insight into what goes on in British jails in the name of justice. In it he describes visits to well-known prisoners - Hindley, her accomplice Ian Brady, mass murderer Denis Nilsen, and spy Michael Bettany - to sex offenders, rapists and conmen, whose names are known only to their victims; but also to those like, Roisin McAliskey, whom he believed to be innocent of the crimes for which they were held, or mentally unsuited to serving their sentences in prison. Longford, more than any other outsider, understood the criminal psyche. He remained one of the few public figures with a belief in the power of prison to reform, but also believed that too many people were sent to prison who could be more effectively helped outside. This diary ...
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ISBN10: 0745950019, ISBN13: 9780745950013, [publisher: Lion Pub] Softcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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ISBN10: 0745950019, ISBN13: 9780745950013, [publisher: Lion Pub] Hardcover 2000. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Clean copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0745950019, ISBN13: 9780745950013, [publisher: Lion Pub] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps/stickers
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