Product Description: This remarkable collection of prison literature inspires with the eloquent idealism of prisoners of conscience through the ages. The contributors include many of the world's finest writers: Wole Soyinka, Primo Levi, Irina Ratushinskaya, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Henry Throeau...read more

Product Description: Book by MARSHA HUNT (EDITOR)

Product Description: 'All limitations, external or internal, are prison-walls, and life is a limitation.' Presenting the less familiar, serious Wilde before and after his fall, this volume includes The Soul of Man, a manifesto on Individualism, De Profundis, the self-analysing piece he wrote in gaol, two open letters to the Daily Chronicle on prison injustice, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, inspired by the execution of a fellow-prisoner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)

When a murderer of prostitutes strikes close to home, Eva Wylie, also known as the London Lassassin, interrupts her training for the British women's wrestling championship to dole out her bare-knuckled brand of justice. Reprint. NYT. PW

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)

Product Description: Incarcerated for 16 years in New York's prison systems, Washington reveals what day-to-day life behind bars is really like. This powerful indictment of the prison system won the Western States Book Award. 2 cassettes.

Gathers letters, diary excerpts, poems, and memoirs by political prisoners

Product Description: Book by Washington, Jerome

Interviews with prison administrators supplement introspective essays, poems, and letters written by men awaiting execution