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Women, Writing, and Prison: Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out

By Tobi Jacobi (editor), Helen Prejean (foreword by) and Ann Folwell Stanford (editor)

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9781475808223 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 13, 2014, cover price $60.00

Women, Writing, and Prison: Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out

Product Description: This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U...read more

By Kathleen Adams (editor)

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9781475808230 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 13, 2014, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.

Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States

Product Description: The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penaltyâabolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States...read more

By Katy Ryan (editor)

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9781609380885 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 15, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penaltyâabolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States.

Writing for Their Lives: Death Row U.S.A.

Product Description: Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death rowâs madness and suicide-inducing realities, Writing for Their Lives offers powerful, compassionate, and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality and boredom of the row...read more

By Jan Arriens (foreword by) and Marie Mulvey-Roberts (editor)

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9780252027932 | Univ of Illinois Pr, December 20, 2006, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death rowâs madness and suicide-inducing realities, Writing for Their Lives offers powerful, compassionate, and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality and boredom of the row.

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9780252070990 | Univ of Illinois Pr, December 20, 2006, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death rowâs madness and suicide-inducing realities, Writing for Their Lives offers powerful, compassionate, and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality and boredom of the row.

Raulrsalinas And the Jail Machine: My Weapon Is My Pen

Product Description: RaÃºl R. Salinas is regarded as one of today's most important Chicano poets and human rights activists, but his passage to this place of distinction took him through four of the most brutal prisons in the country. His singular journey from individual alienation to rage to political resistance reflected the social movements occurring inside and outside of prison, making his story both personal and universal...read more

By Louis Gerard Mendoza, Raulrsalinas and Ral Salinas

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9780292712843 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Raul Salinas is regarded as one of today's most important Chicano poets and human rights activists, but his passage to this place of distinction took him through four of the most brutal prisons in the country.

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9780292713284 | Univ of Texas Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: RaÃºl R.

Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals And the U.S. Prison Regime

Product Description: More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nationâs incarceration rate is now the highest in the world. The dramatic rise and consolidation of Americaâs prison system has devastated lives and communities...read more

By Dylan Rodriguez

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9780816645602 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nationâs incarceration rate is now the highest in the world.

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9780816645619 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: More than two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States, and the nationâs incarceration rate is now the highest in the world.

The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings

By Joy James (editor)

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9780791464854 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 7, 2005, cover price $86.50

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9780791464861 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 7, 2005, cover price $31.95

Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice

Product Description: In Fugitive Thought, Michael Hames-GarcÃa argues that writings by prisoners are instances of practical social theory that seek to transform the world. Unlike other authors who have studied prisons or legal theory, Hames-GarcÃa views prisoners as political and social thinkers whose ideas are as important as those of lawyers and philosophers...read more

By Michael Hames-Garcia

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9780816643134 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In Fugitive Thought, Michael Hames-GarcÃa argues that writings by prisoners are instances of practical social theory that seek to transform the world.

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9780816643141 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 30, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In Fugitive Thought, Michael Hames-GarcÃa argues that writings by prisoners are instances of practical social theory that seek to transform the world.

Waiting To Die: Life On Death Row

An account of the challenging realities prisoners who are sentenced to die for their crimes must face examines the rules that govern death row inmates' lives, including medical neglect, inadequate food, and psychological abuse. Original.

By Richard Michael Rossi

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9781904132523 | Vision Paperbacks, October 28, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An account of the challenging realities prisoners who are sentenced to die for their crimes must face examines the rules that govern death row inmates' lives, including medical neglect, inadequate food, and psychological abuse.

Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America

Product Description: A lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict autobiographies, examining crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, survival techniques, and spiritual awakenings. Hard labor in coal mines, whippings, solitary confinement in bare unheated cells, water torture, and iron maidensâthese are just a few of the punishments meted out to these prisoners and vividly recounted in these selections...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry E. Sullivan (editor)

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9781888451375 | Akashic Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict autobiographies, examining crimes, arrests and convictions, punishments inflicted, survival techniques, and spiritual awakenings.

Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

The author, a prisoner on death-row for killing a police officer, presents a series of essays and reflections on his life and his spirituality.

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

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9780896086999 | South End Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author, a prisoner on death-row for killing a police officer, presents a series of essays and reflections on his life and his spirituality.

9780874860863 | Plough Pub House, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.00

Writing As Resistance: The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Anthology (1988-2002)

Product Description: This anthology is a selection of articles and essays written by people who are either in prison or have been imprisoned. Each contribution was first published in editions of the "Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, from 1988 to 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Robert Gaucher (editor)

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9781551302201 | Three O'Clock Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This anthology is a selection of articles and essays written by people who are either in prison or have been imprisoned.

All Things Censored

A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal features fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan (editor) and Alice Walker (foreword by)

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9781583220764 | 1 reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal features fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

All Things Censored...

A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia AbuJamal includes fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Noelle Hanrahan

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9781583220221, titled "All Things Censored" | Har/com edition (Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia AbuJamal, including the radio essays that were recorded for, but never aired on, National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered.

Speaking of Crime: Narratives of Prisoners

Product Description: Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of crime. What is the power of speech for prisoners? What do their uses of pronouns and choices of verbs reveal about them, their experiences of violence, their relationships with other prisoners, and their likelihood for change? In this fascinating book, Patricia E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Patricia E. O'Connor

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9780803286085 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of crime.

Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words

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By Jeff Evans (editor) and Jimmy Baca Santiago (foreword by)

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9781555534592 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

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9781555534585 | Northeastern Univ Pr, October 26, 2000, cover price $29.95

Frontiers of Justice: The Crime Zone

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By Claudia Whitman (editor)

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9781879418301 | Biddle Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by

Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing--A Pen American Center Prize Anthology

A special collection of the best fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from annual PEN Prison Writing contest offers unique insights into the emotions and thoughts engendered by the prison experience, ranging from humor and empathy to rage, fear, and despair. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By American Center of P. E. N. (corporate author), Bell Gale Chevigny (editor) and Helen Prejean (foreword by)

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9781559704786 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, May 20, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Fiction, essays, poetry, and plays from the PEN Prison Writing contest offer unique insights into the prison experience

Prison Writing: In 20Th-Century America

Gathers over sixty selections written while incarcerated by such authors as Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Jim Etheridge, Edward Bunker, Nathan Heard, Jim Tully, and Kim Wozencraft (view table of contents)

By Franklin H. Bruce (editor)

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9780140273052 | Penguin USA, June 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Gathers over sixty selections written while incarcerated by such authors as Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Jim Etheridge, Edward Bunker, Nathan Heard, Jim Tully, and Kim Wozencraft

Trapped Under Ice: A Death Row Anthology

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By Julie Zimmerman (editor)

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9781879418196 | Biddle Pub Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Book by

Out of the Night: Writings from Death Row

Product Description: This book is the only collection of poems and prose by prisoners on Americaâs Death Row. It lets us hear voices from that terrible darkness, where 2,750 people face execution. For these authors, their writing is a lifeline and a link to the outside world...read more

By Marie Mulvey Roberts (editor) and Benjamin Zephaniah (editor)

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9781873797105 | New Clarion Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book is the only collection of poems and prose by prisoners on Americaâs Death Row.

Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American Pow Narratives

Product Description: Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert Doyle's remarkable study shows why it has retained such enormous power to move and instruct us...read more

By Robert C. Doyle

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9780700606634 | Univ Pr of Kansas, April 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture.

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Product Description: A Joseph Okpaku book. Foreword by Julian Bond. Her first book. It was written while she was awaiting trial in connection with the attempted escape at the Marin County Courthouse in 1970.

By Angela Y. Davis

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9780893880224 | Reprint edition (Third Pr Review of Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A Joseph Okpaku book.

Hauling Up the Morning

Product Description: Book by Dalou Asahi, Bill Dunne, Marilyn Buck, Kazi Toure, Alan Berkman, Judy Clark

By Tim Blunk (editor) and Raymond Luc Levasseur (editor)

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9780932415592 | Red Sea Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by

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9780932415608 | Red Sea Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Dalou Asahi, Bill Dunne, Marilyn Buck, Kazi Toure, Alan Berkman, Judy Clark

The Light from Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons

By Joseph Bruchac (editor)

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9780912678603 | Greenfield Review Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $9.95

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