title: In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
author:  Wilbert Rideau 
description: A death row inmate finds redemption as a prison journalist in this uplifting memoir. In 1961, after a bungled bank robbery, Rideau was convicted of murder at the age of 19 and received a death sentence that was later commuted to life in prison at Louisiana's Angola penitentiary, then the most violent in the nation. Against all expectations, his own included, he turned his up-to-then cursed life around, becoming editor of the prison newsmagazine, the <i>Angolite,</i> and an NPR correspondent who published nationally acclaimed articles on prison violence, rape and sexual slavery, and the cruelty of the electric chair. Rideau frames his 44-year fight to get his conviction reduced to manslaughter and win parole (he succeeded in 2005) as a black man's struggle against a racist criminal justice establishment. More inspiring is his self-reclamation through tough, committed journalism in an unpropitious setting where survival required canny alliance building against predatory inmates and callous authorities alike. To a society that treats convicts as a worthless underclass, Rideau's story is a compelling reminder that rehabilitation should be the focus of a penal system. 16 pages of photos; 2 maps. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Justice and the Vagabond  
    
  
  
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  # The Justice and the Vagabond
  
  
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  Mr. Rutland did not feel well this morning. As he dressed, a sense of
  faintness troubled him, the result, perhaps, of very hot weather in these days
  of spring. After breakfast he reclined languidly in the study, trying to read.
  There was no absolute necessity for his going forth; but at eleven he drove
  into the town to sit with his brother magistrates, preferring the tedium of
  the court to lonely idleness at home.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  His age was about five-and-forty, and to a casual eye he seemed in good
  health; but certain lines upon his countenance denoted a habit of melancholy
  musing, and his voice suggested the same. The townspeople, regarding his
  wealth and social influence, his apparent domestic peace 