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>> 221 Acknowledgments This research benefited from the support of many, and I am pleased to thank them. In California, access to the Folsom Prisons would have not been possible without the backing of Dan Johnson, Rick Rimmer, Grant Parker, Ira Book, Dennis Merino, and Scott Lines. My understanding of innovations in terrorism was enhanced by a distinguished group of scholars at the Center for Contemporary Conflict in Monterrey: Gary Ackerman, Peter Bergen, Lindsay Clutterbuck, Martha Crenshaw, Adam Dolnik, Mohammed Hafez, José Olmeda, Maria Rasmussen, and Stuart Wright. My appreciation of guns and the gangs of Los Angeles was similarly enriched by Andrew Gumbel and Kathryn Del Vecchio. At a meeting of the American Correctional Association in Kansas City, Jim Thomas and Barbara Zaitzow helped me understand religious conversions in maximum-security prisons. Studying the religious lives of prisoners in Florida was not easy, and for helping me work through it all I offer my sincerest thanks to John Hope, Alex Taylor, William Smith, Douglas Gingerich, and Dwight White. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, Edna Erez and Aaron Weisburd introduced me to trends in terrorist recruitment via the Internet. At the Prisoner Radicalization Working Group of the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council in Springfield, Illinois, I was familiarized with current investigative techniques by Dan Bacon and Chris Bolinger. I’m obliged to them all. For their collegiality, at Indiana State University I thank Samory Rashid, Frank Wilson, Jennifer Grimes, Chuck Norman, and Dave Polizzi. Devere Woods and Brenda Starkey of the ISU Institute of Criminology supported much of my travel and for that I am grateful, as I am to the convict criminologist John Frana and to Heather Litchford for their research assistance. To my best friends, Lou Hamm and Marla Sandys, thanks for your love and sanity. In Washington, D.C., I thank Thomas Feucht and Jennifer Hanley at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Jay Albanese, the former NIJ director , who recognized early on the need for research in this area. Thanks also 222 > 223 British Council. For their insights on effective Islamic de-radicalization programs , I am equally indebted to Hamed El Said and Tinka Veldhuis at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. The transparency of officials at the Israeli Prison Service was remarkable. I thank General Orit Adato and Rohan Gunaratna of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for sharing information on de-radicalizing al-Qaeda prisoners. Thanks to Jeff Ferrell and Ken Tunnell for helping me explain the legacy of Johnny Cash in prison; mainly, I thank them for their spirit. Finally, it is my honor to dedicate this book to the memory of John Irwin. At the same time that Irwin was conducting his ethnography of lifers at San Quentin, I was independently doing the same thing at Folsom. I am grateful that these two works have reached a common shore. Irwin was a role model for my generation of penologists. He was a towering figure in the field, a scholar capable of great generosity yet tough enough to cut through the obstacles, contradictions, and general bullshit of prison life. Anyone with a passing understanding of prison can hurl stones at the machinations of bureaucrats, technocrats, and bad government. But few could hear the convict ’s discontent like John. His like may never pass this way again. This page intentionally left blank ...

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