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Crime, Punishment, Rehabilitation, Re-entry: America's Growing Epidemic

by Charles Edward Perry with Govan Mvunyelwa McAbee

194 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-3147; ISBN 1-4251-1388-5; US$18.95, C$21.79, EUR14.77, £9.79

America has never been presented with an in-depth look into criminal behavior and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Govan McAbee and Charles Perry's perspectives on these subjects are revolutionary.

About the Book

The United States of America is the world's leading incarcerator. The United States of has more people in prison, per capita, then any other nation on planet earth.

With the explosion of the prison population within the last twenty years, and with no end in sight, America has an interesting dilemma on its hands.

Crime Punishment Rehabilitation Re-entry America's Growing Epidemic is a remarkable brilliant piece of work that identifies causes into criminal behavior. It also breaks down different aspects of punishment in relation to Federal laws mandated by a lock them up throw away the key approach to sentencing Federal defendants. Rehabilitation is eloquently laid out and informs the reader of the prevalent mindsets that exist in Federal Institutions. Finally, Reentry is confronted with a pros and cons approach as to what will be the affect of ex-felons returning back to society.

This book is a landmark in its scope, and in covering topics that to this point have been misunderstood, biasly explained, and totally ignored.

Govan McAbee and Charles Perry have combined total of thirty years prison experience. They are experts in the field of criminality and prison environments. The reader will be given an education on issues that will seriously affect this country in the future.

If it is the desire of the United States of America to understand the epidemic of Mass Incarceration, them Crime Punishment Rehabilitation and Reentry is the bridge into gaining insight into this phenomenon that affects so many in this country.

Finally, the reader is given a look from the inside, by two men who have turned tragedy into triumph.

This book is a must read for politicians, criminologists, victims of crime, law enforcement, counselors, juvenile delinquents, criminals and tax-payers.

About the Authors

Charles Edward Perry grew up on the Southside of Chicago. At a very early age he began to steal, and that opened up doors he could never imagine. He would run away from home at the age of thirteen and he ran all the way until he was captured by the U. S. marshals in April 7, 1989. A few months later he would be sentenced to 300 months in Federal Prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Flint, Michigan. It was there in prison that it became clear to him who he really was. He had spent his whole life trying to be someone he wasn't. Now he was faced with twenty-five years of incarceration. What he came to find out was that he was different from the rest of the convicts and he was going to make sure he didn't end up like most of them: angry, bitter and heading for self-destruction. Little did he know when he met Govan McAbee in 2004 that they would be placed on a course to change the direction of a generation of young people.

Govan McAbee was raised in a single-parent home in Port Huron, Michigan. After graduating from high school, Govan ventured off to college and also entered employment at a major trucking company.

It was during employment at the trucking company that Mr. McAbee encountered a crisis in which he handled with reckless abandonment. The crisis evolved into a criminal lifestyle of armed bank robbery.

Mr. McAbee was shot three times on August 3, 1993, in Rockford, Illinois, in an attempted bank robbery. He was convicted and sentenced to thirty years in prison for armed bank robbery. Mr. McAbee has reclaimed his life inside prison.

During his 13.5 years of incarceration a spiritual and mental resurrection has convinced Govan that prison has become a school of preparation for him and other rehabilitated criminals to return back to society and get on the frontlines to fight the war of ignorance that plagues the majority of young people in urban communities.