{"product_id":"concrete-mama-ethan-hoffman-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by scholar Dan Berger that provides historical context for the book's ongoing resonance, along with several previously unpublished photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ethan Hoffman, John A. McCoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295743980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295743981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 8.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Ethan Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046713651455,"sku":"9780295743981","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35dbe345-b1a6-4c71-a99d-357d64aa63eb.jpg?v=1684986051","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concrete-mama-ethan-hoffman-9780295743981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}