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Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V19 #1 (Paperback)
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Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V19 #1 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
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Edited by Bell Gale Chevigny, this issue of the JPP features
non-fiction pieces by winners of the annual PEN American Center's
Prison Writing Contest that address issues of punishment and
creative resistance. Many contributors describe punishment that
extends beyond the loss of liberty, and the issue features articles
on three strikes policies, death row, the AIDS epidemic, murderous
violence, suicide, incarceration of prisoners with mental health
needs, as well as the maddening absurdity of contraband laws.
Others describe creative resistance directly, focusing on proposed
non-prisoner involvement in promoting critical thinking among
prisoners, teaching English as a Second Language, the community
model of prison, and Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project
(described both by its founder and a female prisoner transformed by
PCAP). The issue also features articles from three documentary
film-makers who describe their efforts to break through prison
walls. In the Prisoners' Struggles section, two former prisoners,
an artist and a writer, detail their activism in fighting the
Rockefeller drug laws and felon disenfranchisement in Rhode Island.
A prisoner and two prison justice activists describe an online
magazine written by activists on both sides of the wall. Another
advocate lays out the large objectives and achievements of the
Coalition for Women Prisoners in New York. The writers welcome this
opportunity to reach an international audience and the PEN Prison
Writing Program members hope that these pieces will stimulate an
exchange with people elsewhere who participate in - or are
interested in developing - similar writing programs.
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