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Category: Writings by Prisoners

Writings by Prisoners

Chevigny, Bell Gale (ed) and Helen Prejean. Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing. A Pen American Center Prize Anthology. Arcade Publishing, 2000.

An anthology featuring writings from death row inmates, POWs of the drug war, and more.

August 22, 2003December 18, 2020
Writings by Prisoners

Evans, Jeff ed. Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Own Words. North Eastern University Press, 2000.

Contains 36 pieces from a broad range of prisoners.

August 22, 2003December 18, 2020
Writings by Prisoners

Extracts From Pelican Bay: An Anthology of Prisoner Poetry, Drawings and Essays.Pantograph Press, 1995.

A collection of writings and art by male prisoners at Pelican Bay Prison in California.

August 22, 2003December 18, 2020
Writings by Prisoners

Shakur, Assata. Zed Books, 1987.

Autobiography of Assata Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard), Black Panther leader politically persecuted in United States, and living in exile in Cuba.

August 22, 2003December 18, 2020
Re-Entry, Women and Prisons, Writings by Prisoners

O?Brien, Patricia. Making It in the “Free World”: Women in Transition From Prison (Suny Series in Women, Crime and Criminology). State University of New York Press, 200

Using first-person narratives and a review of contemporary theory, this book addresses how women return to the “free world” after single or multiple experiences of incarceration.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012

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